I just posted a 5,000 word chapter to "Raised to Fear". So read it. NOW! I don't own Kingdom Hearts, but I want to. I was crying as I wrote this chapter. And not because of my fingers hurting from Chappie 7 of my Death Note fic. I was crying from the content of this chapter. The hardest one to write I've ever written. So I hope you don't cry.
Xigbar walked into my room, a triumphant look on his face.
"What?"
"Axel, you've got a trial in front of the whole Organization later."
"So?"
"So you might die."
I swallowed. Shit I promised Demyx I wouldn't leave him. Fuck.
"Speaking of which, you've got ten minutes till you're due to get there. I'd get going."
I teleported to the meeting room, where all the trials were held. There used to be like 60 of us, and they all got either killed by a Keyblade Master or they were sentenced to death here. I looked around. Xigbar appeared in his seat. Zexion, Xigbar, Marluxia(A/N: DUDE LOOKS LIKE A LADY!), Larxene, Vexen, Saix, Roxas, Lexaeus, Luxord, and Xaldin were already in their seats. Everyone but Demyx and Xemnas were present. Dem wouldn't be coming, and Xemnas just got here. I swallowed.
"Axel Scarlet, you are charged with attacking your superiors. How do you plead?"
"Guilty."
Mutters went around the "jury". Just punishment my ass. Most of these guys have a grudge against me. I'm going to die.
"He pleads guilty."
"So then he is guilty!" Xigbar called out.
"I've got marks!" Saix said.
"Since there is, pardon the pun, an orgy of evidence against you, you are hereby sentenced to death by a keyblade. We will give you one day to get your affairs in order. Court is dismissed."
I fell to my knees. Tears welled up in my eyes. I promised Demyx…
I teleported to the hospital where Demyx was and where Scarlet worked.
"Axel, what's wrong?" Scarlet inquired motherly.
"I was tried because I was defending myself and apparently there was enough evidence to support me being guilty and I've been sentenced to death by the keyblade!" I sobbed.
Scarlet's POV.
"How long do you have?" I asked.
Axel took a deep breath.
"One day."
"What the fuck! That's not okay! Demyx can't-You can't get-THIS ISN'T FAIR!" I screeched.
"Scarlet, I'm going to die, okay? Don't snap on me now." Axel sneered.
"No, I'll snap on you when you're DEAD. Because that makes me feel better! If you want to break the news to Demyx now, I suggest you do!" I yelled.
Axel winced and I started sobbing.
Axel's POV.
I walked away from a sobbing Scarlet and went to Demyx's room.
"Demyx?"
"Axel, what's wrong? Why is Scarlet crying?"
"I was tried because I was defending myself and apparently there was enough evidence to support me being guilty and I've been sentenced to death by the keyblade!" I cried.
"A-Axel, you've been sentenced to death! This can't be happening, this is a dream. I refuse to-"
"It's happening, and I've got one day to live."
"Axe, how can Xemnas sentence you to death!"
"He's SUPERIOR, he can do whatever the hell he wants!"
I fell asleep at Demyx's side.
TIME JUMP: THE NEXT DAY.
"Axel, wake up." Zexion shook me gently.
"Ngh, what?"
"It's time"
"Zexion, do me a favor, okay?"
"What?"
"Tell Demyx I love him."
"Yeah, Axel. I'll tell him."
Zexion led me through the corridors of Darkness to the World That Never Was, where I was supposed to die.
"Axel, I'm so sorry." Roxas said, swinging his Oathkeeper over his shoulder.
"Whatever."
"You don't have to act brave, Axel. You're about to die."
"Don't remind me."
Tears stung in my eyes as Roxas readied his keyblade. Lexaeus and Xaldin held me still. There was no need to, really. I was numb.
"Axel, what do you think is going to happen to you?" Roxas asked.
"Dunno. I'm probably going to get killed."
"Why would Xemnas kill you?"
"I'm involved in a plot to take over the Organization. He's probably going to."
"I guess, but what will happen to me?"
"Whatever happens, happens."
I was having flashbacks. Great.
"Demyx, I love you."
"Love you too Axel. Don't leave me, 'kay?"
"Okay. I promise. Got it memorized?"
"Yeah, I do." Demyx laughed.
How I would miss the nocturne.
"Axel?"
"Yeah?"
"If I neglected you, what would you do?"
"I'd probably want to kill myself. Apart from Demyx, you're the only one that doesn't hate me."
"Axel! You can't kill yourself!" Roxas looked at me apologetically.
That was when I knew he was going to leave me.
Roxas left me. And I tried to kill myself. Now I wish I had succeeded. I'm such a coward.
"Axel, don't do this! AXEL!" Demyx was crying.
"Dem? W-What happened to-" I fell into the darkness.
Demyx shook me, tied a cloth around my wrist, and called an ambulance.
"Axel, you have to wake up! You can't leave me alone! You promised!"
My eyelids fluttered open.
"I'm not leaving you alone, Dem. I'm just…so tired…" I fell back into the shadows.
I was so weak.
"Why did you do this to yourself, Axel?"
It was the first time I cut myself. Demyx was bandaging my wrists.
"Roxas left me, Dem. I've lost everything."
"That's not true, Axel, you still have me."
I was so desperate for being needed.
Ael, honey, wake up. It's time for school."
School. Ugh.
"Mom, five more minutes." I had pleaded.
"No, Ael. Wake up!"
I had woken up and glared at my own mother. I had then felt ashamed of myself.
"Sorry, mom."
How lazy I must have sounded.
"Mreheh."
"Now I'm a real boy! I mean a ninja! I mean MREH!" I said, deciding to be really random.
Demyx leaned over and kissed me.
"You're so cute!" He murmured.
Sora got up and left, saying,
"CAKE IS LIES!"
I just stared blankly at Demy before pulling him closer.
"Why don't you try that again?"
Demy actually did kiss me again.
I am so pathetic.
Demy walked into my room, pulling Roxas behind him. Roxas, who had not come to see me at all. Roxas, who was the reason I was here in the first place.
"What do you want, Roxas?" I spat.
"Nothing, Axel, this douche dragged me here!"
"DEMY IS NOT A DOUCHE! You're the reason I'm here in the first place, dammit! I love Demy, and he, unlike you, doesn't make me want to commit suicide!"
Demy wimpered. I huggled him.
"Get out." I growled at Roxas.
"But-"
"Get. The. Hell. Out. Of. Here. Now. Roxas." I spat.
Roxas walked out, tears pouring from his eyes. I pulled Demy's chin up and kissed him. Demy then looped his arms around my waist and and carefully kissed me back, not wanting to hurt me. I looped my arms round Dem and pulled him closer to me. All too soon, Marluxia walked in. We pulled ourselves apart and blushed.
But I was in love. Doesn't that mean something?
Marluxia left and Demyx strode over to the door and closed it. He then came back to my bed and looped his arms around my neck and resumed what he was doing before Marluxia came in. I held him as close as I could without breaking apart.
Demy, if only you knew what lengths I would go to for you.
Little did I know that he was thinking the same thing as me. Demy moved his arms to around my waist and I echoed his movements. Dem began to get more passionate, and I wanted to tell him to slow down, but I couldn't. The song changed to Guardian Angel by The red Jumpsuit Apparatus. That's exactly how I felt. We broke apart, and Xigbar burst in, his bow-and-arrow things, pointed straight at Dem.
I wanted to protect Demyx. All I ended up doing was hurting him.
"Give me Axel, Demyx. Now."
I stood in front of Demy.
"Piss off, Xig. You don't know what you're about to do."
I still couldn't throw my chakrams, my wrists weren't healed enough.
"What can you do, Axel? Judging by the amount of blood seeping through your bandages, you're wrists still haven't healed enough for a fight."
"Don't, Axe, I'll be-"
"Dem, I'll protect you, even if it kills me."
"How cute, Axel."
I summoned my chakrams, not caring how much pain it caused me.
"BURN BABY!"
Blood dripped from my wrists as flames attacked Xigbar.
"You're looking a bit worse for wear, Axel." He taunted.
I threw my chakrams at him from within the circle of flames I had created.
"I'm so sca-" Xigbar fell, defeated, and used his portal to disappear.
"Until next time, Axel."
"COWARD!" I yelled, "STUPID COWARD!"
"Axel, calm down, you're losing a lot of blood from your wrists." Dem said.
The room spun.
"Wha-"
And then everything was black.
I awoke in a brightly lit white room, a different room than before. My eyes whizzed around.
"D-Demyx? Where are you? Demyx!" I called.
No reply.
"Ael, why would you want to go back to that stupid hospital and that stupid life you had before?" I heard a familiar voice.
"Mom?"
"I know how unhappy you've been, Ael, my darling."
"But I promised Demyx I wouldn't leave him alone. I have to go back."
"You love this Demyx, don't you?"
"Y-Yes, mom, which is why I have to go back."
"Oh fine, Ael."
I woke up, I really woke up, in a white room, and Demyx was sitting in a chair next to my bed.
"Axel, thank Kingdom Hearts! I thought I'd lost you!"
"Nope!" I whispered.
A gurney was pushed into the room.
"What is that for?"
I was loaded onto the gurney and taken to the E.R where I was knocked out yet again.
This time, I woke up in my own room, and pain immediately seized my wrist.
"Kingdom Hearts! What did they do?"
"They glued your wrist closed, Axel."
I knew that voice. It was Xigbar's voice.
"Xigbar, swear to Kingdom Hearts if you laid a finger on my Demyx." I growled, standing up.
"What are you gonna do about it if I did?"
"I'm gonna kick your sorry ass, that's what I'm gonna do."
"I hate to tell you this, but Dem's…incapacitated at the moment."
"What did you just say?" I seethed.
"Dem's incapacitated at the moment, Axel, my darling."
"I am notyouranything! I belong to Demyx!" I spat.
"But not for much longer."
Xigbar walked over to my and put is handss around my waist, locking them together into an iron grip.
"Let go of me, you creepy, crusty, obnoxious, perverted, idiotic, abominable, beastly, ghastly, vulgar prat! You-"
Xigbar shut me up by…doing something I'd rather not say. I threw a kick to where you should never kick a guy and threw a crying Xigbar out of my room and locked the door.
Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit. What happened to Dem? What if I can't get out? What if that sex-crazed pervert tries to get in again?I instantly switched into panick-mode.
"Don't worry, Axel, darling, I'll be all right." Xigbar said.
I unlocked the door and made sure I broke at least two of Xigbar's ribs with one kick.
"Shut up you Narutard."
All I heard was Saix yelling, "NUMBER EIGHT GET YOUR ASS OUT HERE!"
I really am a monster.
Roxas thrust the keyblade forward, straight into my chest. I was dying.
"Excuse me, miss, but is there a Demyx Nobody checked in here?"
"Yes, he's on the fourth floor, the same room as you were in, Axel. Wait,Axel?Scarlet! Axel's here!"
A young girl, maybe twenty, walked out of the back room. She was wearing black pants, a black and red striped shirt with theStupid Mario Broslogo on it, had bright red hair, identical to mine, and the tip-top of her ears were pierced.
"Hey." Scarlet, I was guessing, droned.
"Hey. What do you want?"
"I'm supposed to make sure you don't get lost finding Dem. Apparently you guys know each other, or something. I wasn't really paying attention. What? C'mon, Kairi, don't give me that look! You know I really hate it when Riku gives me orders that don't involve fire in any way, shape, or form." She complained.
"Can we go now?"
"What? Oh, yeah. Let's go."
I followed her to Dem's room. Dem looked absolutely terrified. Bandages covered his left arm, his right leg was in one of those elevation things, and, to my extreme rage, his nose was broken.
"I'm gonna leave you two alone. You okay, Dem?"
"Yeah I'm okay. Thanks, Scarlet."
"No problem." Scarlet dismissed the thanks with a wave of her hand and walked out.
"Who did this to you?" I murmured.
"That crusty, old, obnoxious, revolting pervert we call Xigbar."
"Okay, so I've already taken my vengeance."
"What did you do, Axel?"
"I might have broken some ribs, and seriously damaged the way he walks…" I said, mocking thought and making Dem laugh.
"You kicked him in the no-nos? Niiiiicccceeeee Axel."
I kissed him lightly on the cheek.
"Guess now we're even, Dem."
"Yupyup."
I looked over to see a poster on the wall.
CAKE IS LIES.
Bullshit. Cake is not lies.I thought.
Speaking of cake, there was one huge-ass cake that wasscarlet.I think it was strawberry.
I fell into darkness. But then again, wasn't I already darkness? I fell into nothing. It was bliss.
How did you like the story? I decided to chock the end full of flashbacks, sorry. But seriously, review and check out some of my other stories.
I was crying when I wrote this chapter.
I'm not heartless, but please review and try "Raised to Fear" or something.