Me: Welcome to another chappie!
Ruexgo: Yes, this time, I'm with annoying fire-head over there
Axel: I can hear you know!
Ruexgo: I dont care!
Me: Goodness sakes, what am I going to do with those two? (Turns to audience) I own nothing but Ruexo and her keyblade. I think. Now ONWARDS.
Axel was standing in front of her holding two large-what were they called again-charkams. "Okay, so it looks like I'm going to be your babysitter for today, so, yeah," he said.
"I don't need a babysitter!" Ruexgo exclaimed. "Goodness sakes, I'm about your age!"
Axel ignored her. "Okay, so has Saix and Mister Boss-man talked to you about anything?"
She shook her head. "Only about the keyblade," she said. She summoned it and it appeared in her hand. Axel stared at it for a moment before looking slumping backwards in a loud sigh. "So I have to be the one to do all of the explaining?"
"…Not exactly…" she said. She started to walk around, swinging the keyblade. "When I first woke up, I discovered my heart wasn't really…being a heart. Then Xemnas called me a Nobody, which I can only presume is: a. Someone without a heart, or b. No one at all."
"I'm impressed," Axel said. "You seem to have gone to school. Now, what do you know of Kingdom Hearts?"
She thought for a moment. "Well, Xemnas said that keybladers collect hearts and bring them up to Kingdom Hearts, so it must be made out of hearts, thus the name 'Kingdom Hearts'. Completing it seems to be the goal of the organization, though I'm not sure why."
Axel nodded thoughtfully. "Well, Kingdom Hearts, like you said, is basically a giant heart made out of all of the hearts Roxas and you release. If we complete Kingdom Hearts, we get our hearts back. All the emotions that were lost will be regained."
"Really?"
"Yep. Got it memorized?"
"One more thing," Ruexgo said. "If Roxas and I are the only ones who can collect hearts, then what do you and the others do? Why isn't the organization just made up of 'Roxas and I like' people?"
Axel opened his mouth before closing it again. "I have no idea," he said.
"So; what are we going to do?"
"Well, I did the same thing with Roxas, and he turned out fine…so follow me," he said. He started to run to Market Street. "Hey! Wait up!" Ruexgo exclaimed.
Axel stopped at one of the markets. "So, did they tell you about Heartless?" he asked.
"Heart-what?"
Black shadow-y creatures appeared in front of her. "What the hell are those?!" she exclaimed. She readied her keyblade.
"Heartless," Axel said, readying his charkams. "These are preferably called shadows. S-H-A-D-O-W-S. Got it memorized?"
"Are you going to say that every time you want me to remember something?" Ruexgo asked.
"Pretty much."
Ruexgo rolled her eyes. "Got it memorized," she muttered. She spun it around and swung it towards one shadow. It jumped and started to hurl towards her. 'Not on my watch!' she thought. She swung the keyblade upwards and it turned into whisps of darkness which floated up into the sky. She stood up. "Not bad," Axel said. "Now try doing magic. Like this." He hurled a ball of fire at one of the shadows, throwing them back.
"Watch me, fire-head," she said smiling, a mischievous glint in her eye. She swung it around again and hit one neo-shadow. She then pointed her keyblade at another shadow and a ball of darkness came out from the tip and hit the heartless. She then pointed it up at the sky. Thunder came from the tip of it and spread around her, killing many shadows before more came. She then ran at another shadow and flung it back before asking, "How are you holding up
A blast of fire brushed past her. "I could say I'm doing okay," he said as a shadow jumped on him. Ruexgo rolled her eyes and swung the keyblade around her in a semi-circular motion releasing a wave of darkness at the shadow destroying it, as well as several others around it. "Welcome," she said. Axel smirked. "Heh, you just got lucky," he said.
"No, I'm just-look out!" she exclaimed. Axel turned around and hit a shadow with his flaming charkam before Ruexgo kicked it up. Jumping up, she swung her keyblade and let out a riptide of darkness destroying it. She gracefully landed on the ground. "Not bad for a beginner, huh?" she said.
"I'll say," Axel said. He then threw his charkam at her. "What the!" she screamed. She ducked as it hit a shadow behind her. She stared at the charkam behind her before turning back to Axel. "Just make sure to always watch your back. Got it memorized?"
"Dammit," she muttered. "Hey, I did it to you!" she exclaimed.
"Whatever," he said. "Those kinds of heartless were called pureblood heartless. They don't release any hearts. Heartless called emblem heartless do, but only you and Roxas can release those hearts. When you guys releases those hearts, the go to Kingdom Hearts. You might see some emblem heartless later on. Now after every mission, we usually RTC."
"What's that?" she asked.
"Return to Castle," Axel said.
"So that's it? That's how it usually goes?" she exclaimed.
"Well, for us and Roxas, we do something a little bit different."
They stopped at an ice cream bar. "Three Sea-Salt ice-creams, please," Axel said. He handed the man the munny.
"Sea-Salt?" Ruexgo said as Axel handed her the ice cream. "That doesn't sound nice."
"Trust me, it is," he said. "Now come on, I want to show you something." They turned the corner and Axel made a dark corridor. "Come on, step in," he said. She did.
When she saw light again, she had to squint her eyes. "Axel, what in the world is going on here?" she exclaimed. Her vision cleared up. "Oh. My. God."
Laid out before her was the entire city with the sunset right behind it, giving a warm glow to the town and making it seem like right now was the laziest afternoon in the world, like she hadn't done anything at all. Sitting on the ledge was Roxas. He was staring out to the horizon.
"Hey Rox," Axel said. He gave Roxas his ice cream. "Thanks," he said.
"So what did you do?" Axel asked. "How was your day?"
"Well, we meet a couple of emblem heartless before I accidentally hit Larxene with one of my attacks." He twitched. "It still hurts."
"Oh…" Axel said.
"I'm taking it I should avoid Larxene at all times?" Ruexgo asked.
"Basically."
"Yep."
"So how was your day?" Roxas asked. "I heard you two got paired up together."
"Nothing really," Ruexgo said. "We just kicked heartless butt and Axel told me about Kingdom Hearts." She licked her ice cream. 'Not half bad,' she thought. 'Wait…salty… sweet. This is AMAZING!'
"So how do you like it?" Axel asked.
"Why haven't I tried this before in my entire life!" she exclaimed.
Axel punched her in the arm. "Glad you like it," he said. He looked back at the sunset. "It's my favorite flavor."
Ruexgo smiled. "Hey Roxas," she said. "What was your life like before the organization; you know, as someone with a heart."
"Somebody."
"Shut up fire-head."
Roxas smiled and turned back to his ice-cream. "I honestly have no idea," he murmured. "I can't remember a thing about my past life, so I hold onto these memories." He looked back at Ruexgo. "What was your past life like?"
"Boring and idiotic," she said. "I remember a life here, in TwilightTown. I went to school, graduated, I never got a job though, thank goodness, and nothing ever happened until I was attacked by heartless. But…before that life, I don't remember anything. Nothing about my childhood, nope, nada, zilch."
"Oh," Roxas said. He smiled at her. "I hope you get your memories back," he said.
"More me than you," Ruexgo said. She looked back at Roxas and Axel and smiled. "You know, it's funny. I can't seem to shake off the feeling that I know you two and Saix too," she said. Axel looked at her in surprise. "In fact, I was observing the whole organization today and it seems like I've met almost all of you before. It's kind of funny." She laughed dryly. "Well funny if we had hearts. I've known TwilightTown all my life, and suddenly I'm told to be a nobody, have the power of the keyblade, fight heartless, and in only two days by people I'm imagining to have met before."
"Well, you'll get the hang of it," Axel said. "Until then, you'll need all the help you can get."
Ruexgo glared at him. "Don't make me hurt you!"
Roxas laughed. And boy, did it feel good to listen to.
"Saix," Axel said.
"What is it, Number VIII?" Saix said tiredly.
"My name's Axel," he said, "but that's not the point. Listen. We have to talk. Now."
"Not now, I'm busy," Saix said.
"Saix…"
"Cant it wait until tomorrow?"
"Yes…but no! It has to be discussed NOW."
"Axel, I'm going."
"ISA. NOW."
Saix stopped, frozen in his tracks. The hardness of Axel's voice was showing immensely. Saix turned around. "I'm guessing I have to listen then?"
Axel walked up to him. "Listen, about that kid, Ruexgo, did you see what her original name was?"
"No. Frankly, I really wouldn't bother to remember anyways," Saix muttered. "Why?"
"Well, I was out with her today…"
"Yes, yes we know that."
"And she called my fire-head. She even said it just the way she would say it."
Saix sighed and shook his head. "Axel, there are a billion other girls in the worlds, and she looks nothing like the girl you are suggesting. Plus, it might just be a coincidence."
"First of all, she's not just 'the girl', if you remember correctly," Axel said, lifting a finger. "Two, she's about the correct age. She's sworn she's seen us before. And not just us. The others too."
"Axel. Just a coincidence." On the inside, Saix was slightly worried.
"Still don't believe me?" Axel said. "Fine; I'll prove it to you!" He grabbed Saix's clipboard and began to write on it. Saix watched him, arms folded. 'What if Axel's right?' he thought.
Axel stopped and stared at the clipboard. "Oh," he murmured. He shoved the clipboard in Saix's face. "There, see?"
Saix read the name. "I still can't believe it," he said lifelessly, trying to hide his surprise.
"What should we do?" Axel asked.
"Nothing." Axel looked at his old friend. "At least nothing yet. For now, try to confirm it even more. Does she remember anything about her past?"
"She's blank with a capitol 'B'. Nope, nada, nothing, zilch."
"Good. We keep this a secret from her. She can't find out anything."
Saix started to walk away. "Saix, I don't think this is a good idea," Axel said.
"For once, you seem to be thinking things through," Saix said.
"I'm serious," Axel said. "I think she deserves to know. We did leave her."
"And look where that's got us," Saix said.
"Then maybe things would have been different."
Saix turned around. "You know she's going to hate us when she finds out," his old friend pointed out.
"You need a heart to hate someone," Saix said.
"She doesn't need a heart to break our necks."
Saix sighed. "That's it, I'm going," he said. He walked away. Axel sighed. 'I hope you know what you're doing, Isa,' he thought.
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