Nice to see you all again. Thanks for the review(s), guys. But, with the lack of them, I have to wonder if people are even reading this besides Bit and the Hobo…? -Sigh- Ah, well. I'll get over it. After all, there's a story to continue!!

Sorry for the delays getting this out. D; My KH inspiration died.

Have fun with Chapter 4!

I wanna give out a special thanks to my best friends for giving me the inspiration to continue this after kinda… losing it. Thanks, guys.

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What to do, what to do?

Roxas asked himself this several times as he sat at the edge of his bed the next morning, looking at his foot. He wanted to get up and move, but he knew a certain redhead'd maul him if he were caught.

Well then, I guess I'll just have to avoid him…

The blond made sure no one was nearby by limping over to the door and peeking outside before he opened a portal to walk through. The end of the portal appeared at the training grounds that had been recently built. He hadn't gotten a good chance to get a feel for the place, and there was a bit of it covered in woods he hadn't been in. He decided to start there.

He knew he shouldn't have been walking around on that foot, but what did it matter? After all, if the only thing he could feel was pain, he might as well let it sink in. [AN: Lawl, Roxas is a masochist. XD; And so, he continued to limp over into the woods, stepping lightly over logs and streams. It didn't look like these woods would go for very long, but apparently the training grounds were a lot bigger than he had thought… On the other hand, maybe this was actually an illusion trap that had been set specifically for training.

Any normal person would have been intelligent enough to pay attention to where they were going, especially being injured, but Roxas was too busy thinking about how to get out of the illusion that he lost himself within it. Oh, what a smart boy he was today.

A quick scan of his surroundings gave him the mental OK to start moving again. He would eventually get out, right?

Wrong.

After what seemed like forever, he stopped walking to catch his breath. He leaned up against the nearest tree, sinking down to sit on the soft grass. He found it so strange to find such small amounts of weeds and dead leaves about. He figured there should be more, but he also knew that with the place's recently being built, the grass had not yet had the time to turn to underbrush.

The blond was starting to wonder when he would get out of the woods when he felt something underneath him. A vibration that slowly increased in intensity, to be exact. Something was coming his way, and it would probably have been a good idea to run. Therefore, he did. He jumped up, only hurting his ankle more, and started to move. He had no idea what was big enough to make the place vibrate, or what could have possibly been out there. Nevertheless, he knew it was more than likely dangerous, so he made sure not to slow down.

His injury was really beginning to bug him, and it didn't help that he twisted it on a random patch of thick weeds he just happened to be running through, which sent him down to the ground. Or, at least, what would have been the ground if it hadn't been a hole. He shrieked, a sound apparently loud enough to stop whatever it was that was following him, but not enough to stop him from plummeting about twenty feet down into the trap. He hit the bottom, and then blanked out.

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Roxas regained consciousness to find himself in a familiar room, though he wasn't sure why. Upon closer inspection, he identified his surroundings as Axel's room. Not that this was a bad thing… Or… was it? He gasped, realizing that if he was in Axels' room after what had happened, he'd been found. Moreover, if he had been found… Well, he was in trouble now.

Boy was he smart today!

The furious redhead burst into the room at the slight sound of his bed creaking, the attempting-to-escape Roxas freezing in his movements. "What… What the hell were you thinking, Roxas?!" He started, the blond-haired boy flinching.

"I-I'm sorry, Axel, I didn't think—"

"Damn fuckin' straight you didn't think. You scared the living shit outta me! I come to check on you, you aren't in your room, and when I go looking for you, I hear you scream and have to go track the earsplitting noise into the woods to find you passed out in a hole. What in fucking hell were you doing out there?!"

Roxas slipped back under he covers he had been pulling off, pulling them over his head and murmuring, which forced Axel to come closer to him to hear. "I'm sorry… I just couldn't stand sitting around, and you hadn't come out yet, so I just… left. I didn't think I'd end up KO'd in a pit in the middle of the woods."

Axel could tell his voice was that of someone upset and scared, so his own tone turned to one that was a little less angry. He pulled the blanket off his head to see that he had buried his face in the pillow. He ran his fingers through the blonde-haired boy's hair and sighed, defeated. "… Just… don't scare me like that again. If you had really wanted to get up and go, I would have gone with you… So just tell me next time, alright?" Roxas nodded, turning his head to smile at him.

As far as Roxas was concerned, Axel had feelings. He could be frightened, worried, angry…. Actually, when he thought about it, his own fear was as close to real as it could get. Perhaps Axel was right… Maybe they couldn't really take away their feelings. Because he knew he was feeling something….

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Later that day, Roxas was feeling a little better, and was able to walk around carefully… With Axel trailing less than two feet behind him at all times, at least. He managed to get to the training grounds again, before almost falling over and having protective hands wrap around his stomach and waist and pull him back up. Roxas felt his face flush, and turned his head to see a sweatdropping Axel.

"Ugh… Roxas, be more careful…." He scolded, releasing him and putting a hand on top of his head. "Now, why was it you suddenly wanted to come here…?"

Roxas blinked, and then smiled. "Oh, that's right! When I fell, I was being chased by something… I have no idea what it was, but it was big. I screamed, and that seemed to stop it… But I never got to see it, since I ran when the entire place started vibrating…" He tried to explain, but Axel seemed to think he was crazy.

"Eh… Are you sure…? It's sounds a bit farfetched to me…" He said, an eyebrow cocked.

"I swear… Axel, it's true," He protested.

The older boy just shook his head. "Alright… Alright, let's see if we can find this thing."

Roxas nodded, pointing toward the forest. "I got lost in there, then felt it coming toward me, so I ran…."

Axel quirked a brow again, looking at Roxas as if he had just called the grass purple. "Wait, you… got lost in there? There's not even enough forest to get lost in…."

Roxas stared up at him. "… I was… I thought it was an illusion…" He stated, gaining another strange look.

"… Roxas, I think you were delirious…"

"Damnit, no. I wasn't. I swear I was lost."

"Fine, fine… Come on, let's just go."

To Roxas' distress, they moved around in the small amount of forest, making him frustrated when they found nothing, and didn't get lost. The blond leaned against a tree and sighed. "I knew it… This is just ending up to be a normal forest… Now I look like an idiot! But, I swear, I was lost! I know I was…"

Axel sighed, putting a hand on Roxas' head. "It's alright…" He murmured. "I believe you… I mean… I guess it's possible, after the other night…"

Roxas suddenly perked up. "… It… It must have been her!" He exclaimed.

Axel paused, looking down in thought. Perhaps he was right. After all, since the newbies had arrived, everything seemed to have been out of place. Maybe this was just another of her tricks…? Whatever the case, what did she want with them…? Moreover, who was she?

The redhead opened his mouth to say something, cut off by a sudden vibration. The two nearly lost balance, Roxas falling to the side. Axel grabbed his shoulders to keep him up, moving close to him and latching onto the tree to stabilize them. He held them there until the vibrations stopped.

"Shit, what was that?!" The older teen snapped, looking around to see that they weren't near the edge of the woods anymore.

"…. Wait. Where are we….?"

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OHNOES. What will become of them?! Find out later. xD;;;

Review, please. For the sake of my poor self esteem. D:

And, P.S. I know that this chapter's kinda… off. I'll revise it later, but… In the amount of time I wasn't writing this, I was RPing constantly and getting so much better. :3 Only the last bit of it was recent…. Don't hurt me. I'll be better now, and I might just make a one-shot or something.

Oh, yeah. And, Maxwell and Phoenix are nicknames for them, not their real Nobody names. I probably should have put that in before. Eryx's name was Rey, Xylia's Yali, and Xanthus' was Nathus.

The Melodious Nocturne Stalker