Ai: WOW. Two chapters in one day. I'm so proud of myself YAY! XD ENJOY THE FOURTH CHAPTER, BROUGHT TO YOU BY DaRKaIsTAr!!!

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, or the Jiminy Journal would never have called Demyx weak. I lost to him more times than I did to Sephiroth.

"C'mon dudes, you're still too inexperienced to go on a mission by yourself, so Axel is going along to show you the ropes and how to do a mission properly."

I crossed my arms and fumed silently. Looks like I don't have much of a say in it, huh?

Ray looked at me and nodded, as if reading my thoughts. Okay… so he was, but that was because I was projecting my thoughts to him.

"Fine," I said reluctantly, "but only this time!"

Touchdown to the Pride Lands! I felt my feet touch the ground, but something didn't feel quite right. I looked at my hands and found… Huh? Paws?!!! "Nii-san, what's this all a…"

There was a pause as I took in my brother's current appearance. He was a small lion cub, and his fur was the same color as his hair would normally be. His two green streaks of hair were now running down the skin, I mean fur on his forelegs, and on his neck, wrists and ankles were purple metallic chokers. He was barely recognizable, in short. In fact, the only reason I recognized him was by his different colored eyes. "Nii-san… You're so cute."

An small anger vein appeared on lion cub Ray's head. "Don't call me that. And I could say the same thing to you." Say, he was right. From what I could see of myself, I looked pretty similar to him. But then again, we were twins. The only difference, in fact, as far as I could tell, was that the streaks on my forelegs were purple and that the metallic chokers on me were green.

I waved my right paw around. "We're not supposed to be showing these to other people, aren't we? And we worked so hard to conceal them," I said, referring to the chokers on us.

Ray shrugged. "No choice now, I guess. We'll hafta live with it. At least we can try to conceal them as much as possible when we can."

There was the sound of shuffling to our left, and we spun around to see… We gulped. A great big lion. Big, like maybe two times our size. That big.

"Hey! Aren't you guys forgetting someone?!"

"…Uhh, bro? Is that AXEL?!!"

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It was. And come to think of it, Axel's lion fur was red, red, red, much like his hair. Still, who would have guessed that we would turn into animals? Not Ray and I, anyway. We had never traveled to different worlds before.

"Umm, so what's our mission all about, fool?"

"Shut up, you're puny and annoying."

I kicked one of Axel's legs hard.

"OWW! I don't think girls are supposed to be so rough, are they?!"

"Take that as another lesson learnt for the day, 'cuz they are. So what is the mission about, or do I have to kick you again before you answer me?"

Axel growled. "Under population of lesser Nobodies in this world."

There was a blank look on Ray's and my face.

"Do I have to explain everything to you? Look, we control lesser Nobodies, right? I hope that you at least know that. If there are too many Heartless and too little Nobodies in a single world, then…"

The blank look on our faces was replaced by and even more so one.

"Forget it. You'll understand eventually. Now follow me." With that, Axel leapt forward and bounded towards the huge cliff in front of us, far off in the distance.

Ray's mouth fell open at Axel's speed. Uh, okay, so did mine. "Let's get going, we're gonna lose him at this rate. I can hardly see him anymore." Taking a deep breath, I started running as fast as I could possibly manage, my twin right behind me. To our delight, despite the huge difference in distance between Axel and us, it wasn't more than a few minutes before we caught up to him. When we finally stopped running, we were already at the top of the cliff, from which we could practically see the whole of the Pride Lands. "Nice…"

"Enough of that. Okay, look here. This is important."

We tore our eyes away from the excellent view and focused them on Axel. He was opening a dark portal.

"We're done with our mission already?"

"Shut up and watch." A large group of Dusks emerged from the dark portal and scattered, escaping to wander throughout the entire world. The portal closed and vanished right after that. "That's what you're supposed to do when you get missions like that. Let a few lesser Nobodies run free in the world, and you're done. Now let's get outta here. Being on a mission together with you is hard to bear with."

"I'm choosing to ignore your insulting my sister, not because you're right, but more like because…" There was a loud rumbling sound, like someone or something really, REALLY huge, and by the sound of it, was coming closer and closer towards us. "…I need you alive to tell me what that thing is," Ray said, as a gigantic shadow fell over us.

It almost felt good to hear Axel fall silent for once.

"You've got two choices right now. Pick one. Only one, got it memorized?"

"Uh, the first choice, whatever that is."

"Okay, get your weapons out now, 'cuz you're gonna fight that thing behind you."

The question of what was behind us was easily solved. It was a Heartless which looked very much like a gigantic horse-y… thing with some kind of monkey riding on top of it. Drops of sweat rolled down my face. "Gah! Are we really supposed to fight that thing?!"

"You picked the option which was 'fight', so yes." Axel already had his weapon out, and was gripping it in his mouth. It was weird seeing him only use one chakram, as he normally used two, but I guess it would be pretty difficult to hold two when you don't have any hands. If that's the case… I looked over at my brother. It would be even harder for him to actually wield his hammer, judging by the size of it. Sure enough, after a while of trying, he eventually gave up and chose to just rely on his Earth element. It was enough for me, though. I summoned five of my weapons, which I called 'Blades', and allowed them to hover around me using my Psychic element. My brother looked at me weirdly. What? There was no rule saying that I couldn't summon more than one. He shrugged and turned to face the gigantic Heartless again.

"Just for the sake of asking, what was the second choice that we were given?"

"To fight."

"In other words, the two options were the same?"

"Yep."

Ray's eye twitched. "I hate you."

Shrugging slightly, Axel said, "Whatever. Let's go."

We launched into battle. It was a ferocious one, and not much else could describe it. Leaping onto it's back, I unleashed a flurry of attacks on it, attempting to do as much damage as I could to it. Meanwhile, Ray was making good use of his element by summoning pillars of earth to trap the Heartless and damage it whenever he could. And as much as I hated to admit it, Axel wasn't that bad either. Truth be told, he obviously had more experience in things like this, so it was natural that he knew its weak spots and were attacking them savagely. It was a long and tough battle where none of us certainly walked away unscathed, but our hacking and slashing away at it sure eventually did the trick.

"Now… The finishing blow!!" we all yelled out at the same time and each pounded it with our individual strongest attacks. The Heartless let out a cry and the earth started to shake violently. Unprepared for it, I was thrown off its back and onto the ground, where all wind was knocked out of me. I was stunned to realize that the fallen Heartless was beginning to fall on me. It was obvious that if it did, I would be crushed and that would instantly be the end of me. Yup, goodbye to my life.

I panicked and tried to teleport myself out of the situation, but knew that it wouldn't be possible to do so. Concentrating and building up enough energy to teleport would take too much time, I realized as my certain doom neared. My muscles tensed as they anticipated my death.

But… It didn't happen? The next thing I knew, I was being dropped to the ground from a short distance, and I most certainly wasn't dead. That must have meant that I was pulled away from harm's way in time.

"Now don't say that I don't take care of my comrades," Axel said grumpily.

"Eh?"

Ray ran up to me, looking very much relieved. "Axel dragged you out of the way just before it fell on you," he explained.

"Ohh… Thanks, Axel. You've got my respect now! Whatever happened before never happened." I beamed.

"You optimistic weirdo."

An anger vein appeared on my face. " That's mean."

Axel sighed. "Whatever. Let's get back to the castle."

Author's Notes:

YAY IT'S DONE! XD By the way, the Heartless mentioned in here is refering to the Groundshaker Heartless which appeared in the Pride Lands in the game.

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