Axel: Flying Rainbow Penguin got bored of waiting for reviews... So in her impatience decided to upload the next chapter early.
Demyx: Well, kinda... She got a few subscriptions on the story instead.
Zexion: So it was a compromise?
Me: Yesh : 3
Axel: 'Cause you're impatient.
Me: So are you!
Zexion: *Facepalm* Once again, Flying Rainbow Penguin would like to state that she does not own any of the square enix characters, or the song 'Wonderwall'.
Demyx: That belongs to Oasis! She also wants to give a big thank you to Angel. for giving the first review!
Myde tapped at his sunburn, wincing each time he did so. Barely a week into the summer holidays and he's already got himself burned up, leaving awful stripes across his back where his t-shirt had been.
He was sat in the shade at the park - he didn't dare sit in the sun after what had happened, gently strumming his guitar. It was exactly eight days after the prom and already he was bored, Lea had got himself a job at the local mechanics. And Isa...
Isa was listed under 'Missing persons' now.
Pictures of the boy were posted everywhere, Lea was going out of his mind trying to find his friend who'd simply not come home on the night of the prom. The last time anyone had seen him it was when they'd been exchanging autographs in yearbooks. Isa had gone home a little bit earlier than everyone else, complaining of a stomach ache, and no-one had seen him since.
Myde sadly hit a A minor on his acoustic guitar, too depressed by the mix of sunburn and missing friends to actually play out a full tune. He along with all the other friends he'd been bothered enough to call had their own opinion on what happened. Thinking them over, none of which seemed to make sense.
Lea had blamed it on a kidnapping, but when Myde thought about it, Isa was one of the strongest in the school, he went to the gym more than what was needed for his figure both him and Axel worked out. Hell! Lea looked up to Isa as a role model sometimes.
A pang of jealousy swept through Myde at that moment. Lea often went around with Isa and Myde had to tag along behind, and what was worst about it was Isa backstabbed often, and Lea would come back to Myde bitching away. And then the two would make up and be best friends again. Something that killed Myde inside, he'd always considered Lea as his best friend.
Lumaria, whom had been the person to notify everyone of Isa dissapearance (Being the gossip king/queen of the school) thought that Isa must've run away, and that's why no one could locate him. But Myde and Lea both had agreed that the blue haired teen had no reason to run away, Isa wasn't involved in any gangs nor was there anything going on at home (The two of them had often visited the Cresant residence and could tell they were all happy as far as families went) simply put: Nothing was driving Isa away from home. Which rendered that theory useless.
Myde winced as he remembered what Elenar had wrote up on a social networking site. 'He did say he wuz sik didnt he? Hes dead in a dtch i bet ya. : D' 'The sadistic bitch was never on the best terms with Isa but even then,' Myde thought, 'No one deserves comments like that.'
Drifting back into the real world Myde realised he'd been playing 'Wonderwall' absent mindedly and had recieved something of an audience. An older man was sat across from him black hair with a silver stripe and scars adorning his face along with a huge grin. Myde gave a sudden gasp shocked at his lack of observation stopping what he was playing, the stranger seemed pretty creepy, wearing a big black coat in the middle of the summer, with black boots. He realised the man had an eyepatch, his thoughts instantly switched to 'pirate' and he suddenly couldn't take the man seriously.
"Nah, keep playing; I like that song." The pirate said stopping Myde's flow of thoughts from going any deeper. The teenager obeyed silently, the pirate walked a few paces closer sitting beside Myde. "You sing as well?" Questioned the man.
"Yeah, a bit." Myde mumbled as he continued playing, "I'd rather not at the moment though." He continued wondering if he could make up and excuse or if he'd get caught lying.
The pirate extended a hand, "Name's Xigbar." He grinned broadly making Myde smile back shyly, he stopped playing for a second to take the man's hand.
"Myde." He replied before Xigbar took his hand back placing it on his head, mumbling to himself.
"Myde, Myde, Myde..." The man bit down on his bottom lip, "Where have I heard that name before."
"Maybe I've met you before." Myde commented, though it sounded more like a question.
"As if!" Came a quick and sharp reply, "Believe me, kiddo, I never forget a face, and one as cute as yours I've definately not seen." Myde blushed and began to stutter out something but was quickly cut off again, "I tease! I tease!" Xigbar laughed, "Don't think I'm hitting on you kiddo, it's just funny to watch the younger one's squirm."
Myde sighed shivering slightly, then wincing as the sleeve of his shirt his burn.
"You know, you should really put something on that." Xigbar commented poking the boy in the side.
"No, really?" Came a sarcastic response. Myde brushed his hand along his arm, wincing again. Then Xigbar yelled something that made him jump.
"Ah! Zexion mentioned you, I remember now!" One finger was pointed at the sky and a massive grin verging on creepy as worn on the man's face. "He met you on one of his missions!"
"Zexion? Missions?" Myde questioned, trying to make sense of the sentence, then the name clicked. "Wait! How do you know Zexion?"
"Oopsie daisy, I think I may have said too much." Xigbar said slowing down each word to pronounce it purposefully in his californian sounding accent. The man got up and dug into his pocket, pulled out two pieces of paper and pressed them into the still dumb founded Myde's hand, "Got to go now, buy yourself some plectrums, yeah?" He chirped as he began to walk away. Myde opened his hand back up to reveal a peice of scrap paper and a five munny note.
"Oh, shit, thanks!" Myde called out as he realised he'd been given cash. "Seriously!"
"No problem, kiddo!" Came the casual reply, as if it was really no big deal. There was a final wave of Xigbar's hand before the man dissapeared round a corner. When he remembered the second peice of paper he'd been given Myde quickly opened it up.
The paper was blue with an emblem of something in the corner, it looked like a memo. It was also creased, as if it had been crumpled up more than what it should have been.
XIGBAR/ZEXION: Recon 2nd Aug Helix Road Twilight Town 8pm onwards.
Zexion grimanced at the body lying in front of them. "They got one." He stated bluntly, "Straight after we leave they catch one."
A 'Mmmm' was the reply from Vexen as he took some blood samples from the latest corpse. The blue haired boy on the table had his ribs torn open, his suit was turned bloody and his eyes lifeless. The expression was fixed as that of shock and horror.
"Where's his nobody?" The slate haired boy asked, turning his back.
"In the other room." Vexen stated quickly as he removed his lab coat.
"So we need to return the body."
Silence.
"How old was he?"
Again Vexen didn't speak.
"Couldn't have been much older than me, it was a prom party for the end of college or something."
The blonde haired man ran his hand through his hair, "His nobody's been identified as Siax." He said before leaving the lab.
Zexion sighed, Vexen had had an earful from the superior since they recovered the body, Xemnas had held Vexen fully responsible for what had happened and the man had barely spoken since.
The man never did make much of an effort to show how scared he was of the superior's dissaproval.
Reaching for a pen and paper, Zexion began to write a note out for Lexeaus. There was no way he'd be able to take the body back himself. Siax's somebody was way too heavy for him to manage.
Lex, please return the body where we found it. P.S Vexen is still stropping, you'll probably get an ear fulll of moaning if he catches you anytime soon.
He looked over at the calender, one week until his next mission. He sighed again at the thought of being stuch with Xigbar of all people for something as mediocre as recon.
Mind you, it was better than handling a corpse.
Demyx: That sounds painful.
Axel: Agreed
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