Chakram

Chapter IV: Gummi-Ships

By: Axel

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Axel sighed, leaning against the wall, arms crossed over his chest. He locked his eyes on the stairway, waiting for the other nobodies to arrive. They decided on taking the gummi ship rather than dark corridor, for they were bound to be exhausted at the end of the day.

Axel finally saw a shadow descending the staircase. Luxord walked over to Axel, grinning wildly. "Are we ready?"

"Still waiting for Demyx" Axel grunted, shrugging.

"So what ship shall we be taking?"

"The fun one" Axel said a sinister grin tugging his lips.

Luxord cocked an eyebrow and said, " You don't mean…"

"Oh yeah… we're taking the Oblivion." The Oblivion was Xemnas's custom built baby, with more firepower than any other known ship. Xemnas had built it himself, piece by piece some time ago, though had yet to use it in a long time after it had sustained damage in a mission. He spent a significant amount of time repairing it. Ever since though, Xemnas had been an over protective father of his baby, locking it away and forbidding access to it.

"Xemnas will erase us from our pathetic non-existences if we damage that ship" Luxord said sternly.

Axel chuckled and said, " Don't worry about it. I'm a good driver. And I have the keys for it." Axel held up a key ring, a handful of keys jingling around it. Luxord looked amazed. " I managed to persuade number seven to procure these for me while he was working with The Superior."

"What did something like that cost you?"

"pfft, a week of paper pushing. It'll give me something to do though."

Luxord laughed, shaking his head. " I fear for our organization knowing Axel's being put in charge of important documents. They might end up the tinder for his next fit."

Axel frowned then snorted. " At least I do SOME work. What have you done lately? I recall the only thing I ever see you doing is playing your games and tick everyone off because they always lose."

"I suppose you have point. But whilst the keybarer was on the lose I did have some of the trickier missions."

"How so?" Axel asked. The missions were always either unleash heartless here or go nobody-ify this guy.

"I'm the one who has to do the special operations, things that need to be done in a timely manner, for it is my element after all."

Axel grunted and shrugged, retreating back into silence. The silence filled the void for a while before there was the loud clacking of boots coming down the stairs. The beat was unmistakable. Demyx.

"Dear God Demyx, don't skip. It makes you look like a fruit" Axel sighed as the younger boy approached them.

"oh…okay" he Demyx muttered, ducking his head slightly.

"We ready? Then lets hit it" Axel sighed, turning around and shoving the key into the garage door.

There were a few dozen different ships, all with different purposes and owners. They had all built their own, putting their own creation together painstakingly. They were colored and numbed to match their respective owners. Manny of the ships were now abandoned, eternally parked in there spots.

Axel walked down the walkway, looking at the ships. He personally thought his own was the best, but he supposed everyone did. " Axel we passed your ship" Demyx said, pointing at the sleek, bright red ship, VIII spray-painted in black on the side.

" I'm aware" Axel said without turning around. He came to the end of the walkway to another door. He jammed the key in the computer panel nest to it and the computerized door slid open.

"Axel….Axel where are you going" Demyx asked, quickening his pace to catch up to the elder.

"here" Axel said, pointing at the massive ship before them. The ship was black as pitch, covered in a thin film of dust from unuse.

Demyx's jaw dropped. "No" was all he could manage.

"Yes" Axel said, strolling over to the door. He stuck another key in it and opened the door to the cockpit. " You coming?"

Luxord breezed by Demyx and walked into the cockpit after Axel. He looked back at Demyx, offering him a friendly smile. " Not frightened of such a fine example of gummi ship technology are we Demyx?"

"No" Demyx said anxiously. He bit his lip and then said " but…this is The Superior's ship. He'll kill us for even thinking about it, much less taking it!"

"He doesn't have to know. We'll just be gone a few hours at most. Come on, where's your sense of excitement Demyx" Luxord asked and laughed. He then turned around and retreated away into the ship.

Demyx stood for a moment, contemplating what to do. He heard a loud roar as the massive ship sprung to life.

"Wait guys! I'm coming" Demyx yelled over the engine, running for the door. The ship groaned again and Demyx ran for the door.

He slammed the door behind him and saw Luxord trying to withhold his laughter. Demyx frowned at him and Luxord merely smiled.

"Next stop, Olympus Coliseum. Now sit down and buckle up damnit," Axel said, messing with the various and complicated looking buttons.

"Do you know what you're doing Axel? This is a very complicated piece of machinery" Luxord said, watching Axel professionally mess with the controls.

Axel grinned at him and says " trust me, piloting is one thing I can do. I was a copter pilot in my past life."

"I thought you said you worked for the government, " Luxord said, cocking an eyebrow.

"My job required I had many different skills. Piloting was one of them," Axel said, sighing slightly.

Axel let a few of them memories trickle back before abruptly shoving a plug in the dam that withheld all of his past life.

The engine groaned again and the ship began to move forward. Axel smiled and slammed his fist down on the accelerate button. The ship immediately sprung forward, flying full speed forward and out through the hangar door. A maniac's grin took over Axel's face as he griped the controls. He piloted the ship flawlessly, grinning to himself. It reminded him a lot of his old days.

Luxord looked at Axel curiously, who seemed to be off in his own little world. "Axel, turn up here" he said, pointing at the outline of a coliseum in the near distance. Axel seemed to snap out of the happy trance he'd been in and pulled the ship up next to the coliseum world entrance.

"Come on guys. Let's go" Axel said, walking to the door.

He couldn't wait to get into the arena.

XxX End Chapter IV XxX

And I can't wait to put him in the arena!

This should be real interesting. I've got a good list set up of opponents.

After a long time of debating what to make the first chain an AWSOME idea flew down out of the sky and Chakram'd me on the head. I'm totally anxious to get working on the next chapter!

Please Review babes. The more you review the more I write.

Till next we meet,

Axel