Genre: General/humour
Paring/s: -
Line: "My name's, Axel. Commit it to memory. And I'm the most gorgeous guy you'll ever meet."
There was a mad scramble for my room once I informed Xemnas. Xigbar just happened to be in his office at the time. They took one look at each other, and disappeared at once. I quickly followed. They had re-appeared at my bed room door. They were still looking at each other. Rather like wolves.
"You first, your Highness," Xigbar gave a mock bow, waving towards the door.
"Don't call me that," Xemnas narrowed his amber eyes. They finally broke eye contact, and both grabbed the door handle. There was a snap as it broke under their wrestling match. Xigbar swore, and broke down the door with one bash of his shoulder.
I followed, interested. Zexion was in my room. How he got in I've no idea. He grabbed the little girl, and made a darkness portal.
"Don't you dare, Number Six!" Xemnas said, steadying a wobbling Xigbar. Zexion childishly poked his tongue out, and vanished.
"God damnit!" A breathless Vexen had appeared in the doorway, Xaldin right behind him. "It was Zexion, wasn't it?" He demanded. Xemnas brushed some of his long hair back from his face.
"Yes."
"We should have drawn straws."
"I'll go talk to him," Xigbar volunteered at once, nearly putting his hand up.
"I think we should all go. Where is Lexaeus? Wait, here he comes. Number Eight, stay put. And don't tell the others."
In five minutes I'd spread the word. The lower members were camping in my bedroom. Everyone was in their pyjamas. Luxord was upside down on my bed, reading a magazine. Demyx was leaning on his stomach, playing on his sitar.
Sai'x was on the ground with me.
"So there was a boy in Hollow Bastion?" Demyx asked, letting a few water bubbles encircle my head. "What was he doing?"
"Can we get back to the present matter?" Sai'x asked, bristling like a cat.
"I dunno," I leant back on one of my pillows, lazily drawing fire around the water bubbles. "He was quiet, and he seemed to just be wondering around. But I did find out he's trying to find someone. Two someone's," I added.
"Oi!" Sai'x slammed his hands on the carpet, bearing his strangely canine teeth. "Shut up and listen!"
Demyx hit an off key note, popping the bubbles. Luxord looked up from his reading. "Don't you think it's odd that a girl just randomly appears in The World that Never Was? And in Axel's room no less," Sai'x asked, relaxing his shoulders. "Something weird is happening."
"Maybe Riku was the first of the weird things?" Demyx asked.
"And that's not the only thing," I told them about the decrease of Heartless, and how Hollow Bastion was getting more attention. About Leon, and the strange girl, and the fairies.
"The Heartless would only be on the move is there was a strong presence's of darkness. Or a strong heart," Sai'x muttered.
"Why does Xemnas want another Castle in the first place?" Luxord asked, looking disgruntled. He didn't seem to care about the Heartless down count. His face was red from being upside down.
"Because this world doesn't exist," Sai'x said. I laughed.
"Thanks, Sai'x. We know that were not important, but come-"
"Literally. Day by day it's slowly vanishing. I wouldn't give us two years until this place was gone for good," Sai'x said, perfectly serious. Demyx's eyes were wide. I glanced at him, and tried to soothe his nerves.
"How would you know?"
"Xemnas told me."
"You brown noser."
"Hey! Don't you wonder where Xemnas goes when he disappears for days? He went to the end of our world. And do you know what he found? Blackness. Nothing. The world just ended. If he went one step further, he'd fall off, and be dead."
I scoffed, and fell back onto his lap. He tried to shove me off. I poked him hard in the chest. "So what your saying is that Xemnas wants to build a second castle to save us?"
"Maybe. Who knows."
"Hmfp. Xemnas talks a lot. It's a load of bull."
"Axel," Demyx looked at me I disbelief. "You don't trust the Superior?" I turned up my nose.
"As if. What about you're self? You believe we still have hearts. Isn't that going behind his back. You're not better than I am."
"Y-yeah… but I still trust him," Demyx said firmly. "He's our leader, right?" I just smiled sadly.
"You should trust him, Axel," Sai'x said, actually starting to stroke my hair. I dough he was thinking about me though. To prove my point he lent into me when I touched his cheek.
"Wrong person."
He made a noise of disgusted and shoved me off quickly. "So why are we being left out of the loop?" Luxord asked.
"Higher ups are so full of themselves," I growled. "I reckon they don't want to tell us because we're to young."
"Your so disrespectful," Sai'x kicked me under my bed.
"Just 'cos your half way up-"
"It's not just about me. It's about you. If you don't change your attitude sooner or later, you're going to end up in the deep end," I reappeared under Demyx's legs. I pulled him to the floor. I think he got a carpet burn on his chin. We rolled around for a bit, growling at each other.
"Well if we're lucky, I'll get the skinny," I said, sitting on top of Demyx's back. "She appeared in my room, so I'm not getting off with a free weekend in Twilight Town. Though that would be nice…"
Demyx grumbled and wriggled about underneath me.
"Ask tomorrow then," Sai'x said, getting up. "And tell us what happened."
"Hey hey, were do you think you're going?"
"To sleep in my own room," Sai'x said, looking bemused.
"Sleep over here tonight," Demyx said, managing to sit up.
"I think I'll pass."
"Come on. Luxord is staying."
"No."
"Please."
"No!"
"Pleeease!"
"If I say yes will you shut up?"
"Okay."
Having four in a bed is something I would not like to repeat. My bed is relatively large, about a queen size. Of course when you try to stuff four bodies in, things start to get cramped.
I was so tired that I'd gone out like a light, and let the others get comfortable.
I woke up when somebody started to shake me. Xemnas slowly got into focus as I opened my eyes. Demyx was next to me, curled up like a cat. He was nearly falling off the edge of the bed. My left arm had no feeling in it. Sai'x was sleeping on it.
"Nice to see you kept it under raps," Xemnas said. He looked no better than we did. It was clear he hadn't got any sleep. One side of his hair was sticking up, like he'd lent on his sleeve.
The others started to stir as I tried to dislodge myself from Sai'x.
"More sleep please," Luxord said from the far end, and buried his head under the covers, breathing deeply.
"Wake up," I shook Demyx by the shoulder, then hit Sai'x on the head. I was to slow to get my hand away fast enough. He bit it, then pulled it under. I probably wouldn't see my hand again. "Come on, the Superiors here," I moaned, scared that Sai'x would maul my hand from it's socket. Everyone seemed to work a bit faster after that news. Sai'x sat up, freeing both of my hands, and rubbed his eyes. Luxord resurfaced, and propped himself up on the bed head. Demyx rolled over.
"Morning, Superior."
"What do we have the pleasure of?" I asked, yawning and stretching out my arms in front of me. It was hard to say if Xemnas was enjoying our display or not.
"It's about the girl," he said, shifting from foot to foot.
"Name?" I prompted.
"She can't remember."
"Okay… how'd she get here?"
"She can't remember."
"Is she even a Nobody?" I asked, rubbing my head. I wasn't awake enough to deal with this.
"That we do know. She shows all the signs of one. But she's… different."
"How so?"
"She obviously can't remember anything, dumbass," Sai'x snapped, irritable about being woken up so early. He looked at Xemnas with heavy eyes. "What's the problem here? It's not that strange if she can't remember much. Hell, I'm more worried that it's a girl, and how young she is."
"It is a problem," Xemnas pinched the bridge of his nose, looking like he had a bad migraine. "She can't remember. Anything. Name, age, her Other. How she got killed. What may be the case is that she still has an Other out there."
Everybody stirred with interested. I glanced at Demyx. He was watching Xemnas with wide eyes.
"What's going to happened?" I asked. "Will you try and get her back?"
Xemnas shook his head. "As far as we know, all our Others are dead. We all have the same symptoms. However, this girl is different. We need to study her."
"Study," Sai'x said softly, glaring at the bed sheets. "Remember what happened last time you did that? What it did-"
"Sai'x!" The name sounded foreign on the Superiors tongue. It made Sai'x shut up at once. "Don't speak out of turn." There was a scent of darkness, and a portal opened up. Zexion appeared. For once, his fringe was slicked back. He'd run his hand through his hair so many times; it'd staid like that. Xemnas turned questioning eyes to him.
"The girl… she did something to Vexen," he said, breathless.
"Is he okay?" Xemnas frowned. We all lent forward.
"Well, no," Zexion's voice went up a pitch. The stress was obviously getting to him. Stress wasn't an emotion, was it? "Vexen made to go towards her, and she yelled 'stop'. He just fell to the ground. His eyes are cloudy, and he won't snap out of it."
I vaulted out of bed, and grabbed my cloak. Xemnas stared at me. "Hey, I found her. I get to do something," I said, putting the black fabric over my pyjamas. Xemnas nodded, and created a portal back up.
"The rest of you, stay put," Xemnas made it perfectly clear what he would do to those who disobeyed him. He pushed Zexion forward by the small of his back. We entered the portal. As we came out, I was blinded by light. The walls were pure white. There was a small table in the room, and it had wide windows, looking out over a small forest.
"I know this place," I said, looking confused.
"It's Twilight Town," Xemnas said, gesturing out the window. "We'll move her to a better place soon enough."
I finally noticed the girl. She was sitting on the edge of the table, looking frightened. The silent figure of Vexen was lying near her feet. Xigbar strode over to us, holding a clipboard. "I haven't gone near her," he muttered, pressing the board into Xemnas' chest. "She might… do it again."
"Have you checked Vexen?" Xemas asked, hardly glancing at the fresh data.
"Hell no," Xigbar yelped.
"I'll do it," I said, and pushed pass them. They did nothing to stop me. Can you feel the love? The girl turned frightened eyes to me. She had changed into a simple white dress, which was cut unevenly at the bottom. She was quite pretty when she wasn't killing people. She gripped her dress when I took a few steps nearer.
"Hey, kiddo," I said, smiling as gently as I could. I've never been a huge fan of little kids, the action tasted like watery sugar.
"Wh-what do you want?" She asked, blue eyes like pools of water.
"To talk," I said, opening up my arms. "I won't do anything nasty like those guys," I jerked a thumb at Xemnas, Xigbar and Zexion. "I'm not a scientist. I don't have any needles, or pills." She looked nervously at the other three. I got the chance to come a little closer. "Tell you what. I'll tell you about myself," she nodded. An 'okay' in any language. "My name's, Axel. Commit it to memory. And I'm the most gorgeous guy you'll ever meet. Just ignore those boring oldies behind me," she giggled behind her hand. I smiled encouragingly. "You've got something special about you too. Can I have your name?"
She screwed up her face, like she was in pain. "I-I c-can't remember," she hugged her self. "I'm empty, falling. I'm scared, Axel," she looked up at me, her eyes shining. I put out a hand, like to pat a dog. Xemnas was right. She was a Nobody, but she was different. I cupped her chin. She radiated heat, and slowly took my hand in her own. They were tiny and delicate. Painter fingers.
Behind me, everyone was holding their breath.
The girl froze, and gazed at my chest. She was in some kind of trance. I'd seen it once before. Some time we'd get large parts of our memories back. We would either go silence, or react violently. "You smell like him," she whispered, and buried her face into my chest, inhaling. "Riku…"
My non-existent heart skipped a beat. She knew Riku. Or her Other did at least. A flood of different memories came flooding into me. I didn't recognise them. I realised that she was giving me some of her memories that she couldn't unlock. I saw Riku. He was on an Island. Next to him was someone else. No. Two some else's. They were grinning, and waving. One of the boys had very brown spiky hair. The other boy I didn't know had his arm around him. His hair was like his, but gold. Their eyes were blue like the girls. I looked closely at the golden boy. He was mouthing something.
"Na… na..mine'," I said. "That's your name, isn't it? Namine'."
"Namine'? Yes. Yes! That's my name. I remember," Namine' said, smiling and crying at the same time. I looked back at Xemnas. He was deep in thought. "You need to wake up now," Namine' was out of my arms, and on the floor next to Vexen. Vexen stirred, and blinked.
Zexion let out a heavy breath of relief.
"Number Eight, who is Riku?" Xemnas asked, sounding dangerous. My smile faltered. I think I needed to do some heavy explaining.
END
Hah. Axel's so full of himself :D
Five months ago. I'm not kidding this ruddy thing was written that long ago, I cringe as I read it, haha. I've written a hand full of other chapters too, I just had no time to update with exams and work xp no liiies
-Ixi