A short recap:

Axel has been kidnapped by a mysterious girl who seems erieily familiar to him and has been severly tortured and beaten into giving telling the location of a key. She has left him, bloody and dying to retrieve said key from Axel's apartment where Roxas is alone, and still unconcious.

Now on with the story….

As the relization that Roxas was alone and in quite a bit of danger hit Axel, he raised his head a turned his head blindly around the room, his vision still obscured by the blindfold. He sighed heavily and took a breath, knowing that, given the amount of moisture in the air and the fact that it could only get worse with the rain, this was going to hurt. With a snap of his shaking fingers, the ropes burst into flames and quickly fell to the floor. Axel shuddered harshly as he very slowly, shaking badly got to his feet and pulled off the blindfold.

"No way in hell she's hurting Roxas…not if I have anything to say about it." He said as he started to limp towards the stairs, blood still pouring from the open wounds on his body. As he reached the first step, Axel fell to his knees and let out a painful hiss. From the floor, he look up the stairs and shook his head in an attempt to clear the severe, blood loss enduced bluring of his vision.

'I can't move….my body can't take this…there's no way I can…' His mind raced for a moment and then, Axel fell unconcious, bleeding onto the floor, knowing that he may well never wake again. But as he closed his eyes, he would swear that there were footsteps coming towards him, that someone was there.

Meanwhile….

She rumaged through all of Axel clothes and through everything in the room until she found a small, silver key. It was old and had a small red jewel in the center on the top. As she stood and looked at the reckage she shivered a little and turned with a start to see someone standing in the doorway.

"W-who's there?" She asked, quickly pulling her hood, which had slipped off in her tireless searching, back over her berry-red, mid-length hair. She turned to find a very confused Roxas.

"H-hi….I'm Roxas. Who are you? And….where exactly are we…what is this place? It's a mess…" He said in a tone far from his normal, much more friendly.

She sighed as she realized that the bump to the head when she attacked him must have caused him to lose his memory.

"This is Axel's apartment Roxas. And who I am is of no concern to you right now…." She said, "I'll take you to your friend Sora's place…he'll be able to help you."

"Sora…like my name only without an 'X' and in a different order…" He said with a nod, meaning it made sense but he wasn't sure why.

Silently she led Roxas to Sora's house and knocked on the door, tucking her cape and hood into her bag quickly. As the door opened there was a surprised gasp from the other side of the door.

"K-Kairi? Is that you?" Asked the surprised voice of Sora before he took a good look at her and nodded, "It can't be anyone else with those eyes….why'd you come back?" He asked.

"You got it!" Kairi smiled and nodded, "I just came back for a little visit…I went to visit Axel but when I got there his door was wide open and all the rooms were a mess and then Roxas scared the hell out of me when he snuck up on me. He can't remember anything…like he hit his head or something…." She stated, internally wincing.

Roxas raised an eyebrow at this girl, Kairi she had said her name was. She had said that she had just gotten there when he snuck up on her, but he seemed to recall that she had been there a long while before, even been the one that made the mess while searching for something. He shook his head a little and sighed. He might well be a mistaken after all.

Meanwhile back with Axel….

Axel started to slowly come back to his senses as he felt a moist cloth being dabbed on his face lightly. There was a startled gasp when his eyes started to drift open. He blinked once to clear his still blurry vision and found himself in a clean white room that he was sure seem almost too clean and white.

"W-where am I exactly?" He asked his voice hoarse and very light. There was no answer though, nothing but absolute silence. He shuddered a little and looked at himself, he had been cleaned and bandaged and was laying in a bed. He shook his head a little laid back down again, too tired and shakey to really care where he was. Anything was better than the hell that was the room he had been held in.

"Just rest now, I'll explain everything later." Said a female voice, somewhere in the distance as Axel fell back to sleep.

Alright so here's chapter 2, Axel has escaped and Roxas is safe from danger for now, but wait...who is it that saved Axel exactly. And Kairi?! She's the psycho? That's all for this time. Hope you liked it.