Chapter Three.

Twilight Town.

Crystal followed Axel through the halls of the Castle, sometimes running into doors, but Axel tended to avoid these by making a portal to the next levels. He never quite explained what and where the doors led to, but Crystal didn't really care to know. All her mind was set on was finding Riku and getting the hell out of this place.

"So, what exactly is this place?" Crystal asked.

"What this castle? This is Castle Oblivion, it's the headquarters of Org-" he stopped abrubtly and started walking faster.

"Headquarters of what?" Crystal demanded.

Axel stopped and turned, looked at her, and sighed. "Look, this place, really isn't supposed to exist. I can't tell you everything, but I can tell you some things. Only because you scare me." He smirked. Crystal just glared "Castle Oblivion is the Headquarters of Organization XIII..."

"Organization wha-"

Axel put his finger over her lips to silence her. "Shush, or I won't tell you a thing."

Crystal just nodded.

"Now, where was I? Oh! Organization XIII is a group of thirteen nob- er, people. Just a big group of friends conspiring aganist some dorky kid with a big key. Though he has become quite a handful, from what I heard..."

Crytal interrupted. "Big key?! You don't mean Sora do you?"

Axel glanced at her. Oh great. She knows him. I need to learn how to shut up. He sighed."Yes, Sora. The Chosen One, The Keyblade Master, yada yada."

Crystal pulled out her chakrams. "You're planning to take Sora's heart, arn't you?

Axel just stared. "Well, not me. I just work for these people. I just play assassian. Look, if you stay in this castle any longer, you're going to lose yourself. You may have already started to lose pieces of your memory so-"

"What? Lose my memory? What are you talking about?"

"Listen, I'm going to take you to another world, and I want you to wait there."

"I'm not going anywhere without Riku or Sora, and why are you helping me? You're with the Organization!"

Axel sighed. "Listen, I'll explain EVERYTHING if you allow yourself to trust me. I just need to get you out of here." He put up his hand and made a portal appear, then extended it towards Crystal. "Please." He looked at her.

She stared back and looked at his eyes. His eyes don't lie, they're kind of like Riku's.

She grabbed his hand and he pulled her into the portal.

As the darkness engulfed them Axel slowly shut his eyes as they were swept away.

I don't know why, but I have some attachment for this girl.

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They walked out of the portal and Crystal's eyes hit a beautiful site. They were on top of a hill and a sun was slowly setting under the horizon.

"Wow." She said breathlessly and walked over to the gate near the edge of the hill.

"It is a site, isn't it?" Axel said as he came up from behind her. "This is one of my favorite spots to come to. One of the other Organization members introduced me to this place, it's been my favorite ever since. Heh, but every other time I was up here I had a bar of seasalt icecream with me."

"Sea...salt? Icecream? Ew. Sounds gross." She wrinkled her nose.

Axel smiled. "Well you're gonna have to try it arn't yo-" Axel stopped and turned and looked around.

"What is it" Crystal asked and looked around sharply.

"Listen to me. Go hide somewhere, and quickly. Someone is coming."

Crystal ran and hid behind a jut in the hill, she was still close enough to hear the conversation.

She heard a piercing giggle then a shrill girly voice. "Well, well. Looks like you were here."

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"Well, well. Looks like you were here."

Axel grunted. "What do you want Larxene?"

"Hmph. I need you back up at the castle of course! We have some.. business to attend to with that little keyblade brat."

Axel stared at her. "Well I have to do something here first, and I'll be right there."

"And what is more imporant then the plans?!" Larxene shrieked.

"Do not question me Larxene." he pulled out on of his chakrams and lit it on fire. "I could destroy you right now and make it look like an accident."

Larxene extended her hand, made a portal, and stomped her foot. "Hmph!" She then turned and walked into the portal and disappeared.

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Crystal walked up to Axel slowly, he was walking around in a circle muttering and cursing to himself.

Axel looked up. "Well, let's go into the town, shall we?"

They both started to walk down the hill, heading towards a train station.

"So who was that?" Crystal asked.

Axel looked up, he looked a bit flustered. "That? Oh, no one important. She's a member of the Organization with me, though."

Crystal glanced at him. "Is she your girlfriend or something?"

Axel's face turned as red as his hair. "Oh no! Nooooo! Of course not. She's too...well, prissy for me. And there really couldn't be anything if we wanted to, due to lack of a hea-" he cleared his throat. "Oh, nevermind. Well, I need you to stay here, this world is the safest one I could take you to. If you stay here you'll eventually meet up with that Keyblade spiky-haired kid. I suggest you make a life here until-"

Crystal interrupted and stamped her foot. "I do not want to make a life here! I want to go back to my island and find Sora, Riku, and Kairi!"

Axel stared at her. "Listen, Organization 13 isn't something to take lightly, their leader- er, I mean our leader has a plan to take over the wor-" "Wait why am I telling her all this? I really need to learn to shut up. Oh well, it's not like she's a huge threat, and I personally don't care what happens to the Organization anymore, especially after...yeah."

Axel sighed. "Are you okay?" Crystal asked.

Axel stared on ahead. "Yeah, I'm fine."

Axel then led her onto a train, she quite enjoyed the train ride, she hasn't been on any type of transportation like this since she was home on the island. After about 10 minutes the train came to a stop. Axel headed out the door and Crystal followed closely.

"So, where are we now?" Crystal asked as she looked around.

"Same place, different part of town. Ah! Hold on I need to make a pitstop here."

Crystal looked at the store Axel was leading her too. "Seasalt icecream. Ew, gross. Is this the stuff you were talking about on the hill?"

Axel walked over to her with two bars of icecream grinning widely. "Oh yeah. Seriously, it's the most amazing thing you'll ever eat. Here, try it!" Axel said handing her one of the icecream bars.

Crystal wrinkled her nose in disgust and she took the icecream bar. It was a bluish-green color and was already dripping all over her hand, making it sticky.

Axel nudged his head at her with a smirk. "Go on, try it."

Crystal put the bar near her mouth, it smelled really salty. She took a tiny bite and let the flavor wash around her mouth.

"Well?" Axel asked.

Strangely, he was right about the icecream. It was the most delicious thing she's ever eaten. The way the salt and sugar blend together perfectly and didn't overpower one another, was amazing!

"It's.. amazing!" Crystal exclaimed as she went in for another bite.

Axel smirked as he watched her devour the rest of her icecream. "Man, she made the same reaction Roxas did when he had his first icecream."