Eryn: Wow. I'm rereading my first chapter for this fic and I didn't realize how many spelling errors my Word spell check decided not to pick up. Ugh, I need a new spell checker. This one sucks and it keeps trying to make my sentences sound weird. It's like it's reading off of some 18th century dictionary/grammar booklet thing. x.x What a pain. I'll eventually be fixing those…when I'm not too lazy. XD Oh yeah, just one thing to eliminate confusion on how to say her name, Rilo's name is said Rai-low. Ok? :) It's ok if you thought it sounded a bit like Reno. A lot of people probably thought that.

Now for some review responses!

ILoveRedHairYo: Thanks Rilo. xD

jcola0823: AxelxOC is one of my favorite pairings too. Honestly, I like most OC pairings because the OCs are new characters that are completely unrelated to any plot in the original story of any anime/game/book. I just like any story with OCs as long as it's good. xD I like seeing a character with a new personality and seeing how the surrounding characters of the original story react to this new character. And thanks for spreading the word about my story! XD I like that. And thanks! I figured I'd let Axel do something a little…unexpected. : I don't think I've ever read a fanfic where Axel bites someone. Lol

Fluffyfafa: For one thing, I like your name. It's cute! And thanks! I'm actually considering pursuing writing as a career, maybe a side one, and I figured this was a good place to get some feedback on my stories and see what I need to improve. And I especially love it when people enjoy my stories. So, thank you!

NegativeCloud: No, it's ok. You brought up a good point, however, missing something isn't exactly an emotion. Even emotionless beings like Nobodies can long to have something, which is why they want to become human, beings with hearts. They long to have hearts like normal humans, though Xemnas just wants to use Kingdom Hearts, for what I forgot actually. I was playing the game not too long ago to refresh my memory on everything. XD Haven't finished it yet. Anyway, thanks for the feedback.

Raven06: Of course! It's impossible NOT to like him. XD Depends on how you see it though. A lot of people hate him for killing Zexion. I always liked Zexion, but I never hated Axel for killing him. He had his own reasons for doing it.

Wow I'm in a talkative mood. Ugh, I'm just so bored and grounding does not help at all. Anywho, let's just get on with the fic now shall we?

Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts.

I tossed and turned in my bed trying to block out the noise that crept through the edges of my consciousness. I could vaguely hear...singing? Blearily opening my tired eyes, I sat up to see Axel singing something. Trying to shake the sleepiness out of me, I tried listening to the words of the song and realized what it was he was singing…and dancing! I never noticed how defined his hips were. They're like…huge! But in a good way…I think I have an idea as to why they call him Flurry of the Dancing Flames. Hah.

Oh wow. Hips Don't Lie. Now there's a lol moment for you. Oh how I wish I had my video camera, this is just pure blackmail. Axel smirked at my expression and stopped singing. "Morning, sunshine," he said.

I stared at him blankly then a giant grin spread on my face. "Why were you singing that?" I snickered. He chuckled himself.

"I was listening to some of the music you had on this device you have here. It's great. Wish I had one of these. How can you humans get so much music on something so small?" I just now noticed he had my blue iPod nano in his hand with the white earphones plugged into his ears.

"Where did you find that?" I asked in surprise. Wasn't that over by my computer?

"I found it by your electronic stuff. It's fascinating. You don't see many worlds with this kind of technology," he replied. "The only real world that I know of that has any amount of technological stuff is Space Paranoids. And Earth, too, I guess."

"You know that Port Royal is actually connected to Earth. It's just in a different time though like in the 1800s or something. I wouldn't mind going there actually…" I trailed off. Who wouldn't want to miss a chance to meet the great Jack Sparrow in person and not just the one portrayed by Johnny Depp but the real Jack Sparrow? I certainly wouldn't mind. Elizabeth…not so much. She annoys me.

"I could take you there if you'd like…" he said thoughtfully. "But, we'd have to run it by the Superior first."

"Who cares about Mansex? I'd go even if he didn't say yes," I said stubbornly. I swear by anything sacred to me that I will go to Port Royal and by god I was not going to let anything stop me. That includes the idiot obsessed with darkness.

"What the, Mansex?" Axel was taken aback. I only stared in blatant shock. How can he not know? Oh this is priceless. I couldn't hold back anymore. I laughed and nearly fell off my bed in my mirth.

"You really don't know?" I said in between laughs and just laughed even harder. Axel just continued to stare at me. There's certainly a lot of staring isn't there? Hah.

"What's so funny? I don't see any reason to laugh," he said, grumpily crossing his arms because he didn't understand. He reminds me of a kid sometimes. I guess that's sort of one reason why I like him, even if he is a pain in the ass.

"Ok. Well first of all, I'd like you to rearrange the letters in the word 'Xemnas' for me, ok?" I said with a smirk. Axel raised an eyebrow.

"All right…Still don't see what's so funny though." He had a thoughtful expression and he began rearranging the letters in his head before comprehension spread across his face. His lips formed an "o" and he began laughing.

Grinning, I said, "Funny, right?"

He shook his head. "Geeze. I don't know where you come up with this stuff. That's pretty funny."

I shrugged my shoulders. "It's not that hard to figure out. A lot of other people in my world all know that, rearranged, Xemnas spells Mansex." I vaguely wondered in the back of my mind if Nomura purposely made his name that way. It was just begging for it to be made fun of and look at the monsters he's created. Coughfanscough. I nearly snickered at my thoughts, but brought myself back to the present. "Now, on to that going to Port Royal thing. Can we can we can we?!" I begged. He sighed then created one of those black portals of doom. I hate those things even if they don't make me sick anymore. I wondered why those portals were different from the ones in the game…In the game they made them seem like corridors…

"Ok, in you go," and with that, he shoved me into the portal. How rude! I flew through space until Axel came up behind me and grabbed onto my waist before I could be whisked away into some other dimension.

A bright light blinded my vision for a second as soon as the opening appeared and we were both thrown out of the portal. Axel landed lightly on his feet and dropped me on the hard, white tiled floor. "Ow," I murmured. Sitting up in a more comfortable position, I glared at Axel from my place on the ground and huffed angrily then heaved myself to my feet, no help from Axel of course. Bastard.

"Yes, what is it?" a deep voice drawled. I looked in the direction the sound came from and saw Xemnas sitting on what seemed like a type of white throne, like in the game, minus the multiple other thrones that stood 80 feet off the ground, propping up his head with his hand, looking very bored.

"I am asking permission to take Rilo to Port Royal," Axel announced. Xemnas sat up with an interested look on his face, placing his hand in his lap.

"Oh?" he questioned.

"Yes."

"And why might that be, VIII?" Xemnas inquired.

"I'm bored here. I need entertainment," I said. Or I'll prank everyone here, I thought inwardly. And as soon as I got back from Port Royal, that is exactly what I'm going to do. I mean it's so easy to. There are so many things here that I can do to the Organization. I was going to have a blast with this one. Of course, I want to visit Port Royal first. That is a must. I wonder I'll be able to meet Jack Sparrow. After all, in the second game, Sora and his friends meet Jack at the beginning and we Pirates of the Caribbean fans don't know what happened to Jack before that. Though, he might end up in Tortuga. He does like rum and there's plenty of it there. Either that or I can go meet Will. I know he'll be there. Now that I think of it, I have a year before the second game starts because Sora will need to get his memories back.

"Fine," Xemnas said. "You may go. On one condition: We start your training when you come back. Is that clear?" he commanded.

I nodded. "Yes." Though I agreed to his proposal, I didn't understand what he meant. Training…training for what? And with what? I don't have any powers. My electric powers disappeared a little bit ago so he can't mean those, plus I don't think he knew I ever had them in the first place so that's out of the question. So then what? What power do I have? Suddenly it hit me. I was here, and I've been wanting to ask Xemnas about those purple swirls for a long time, so, I decided to voice my question.

"Xemnas, I have a question," I asked seriously this time. "I had a dream about killing the Keyblade bearer, Sora, and in my hand was some sort of purple swirl, and now lately I've been noticing that those purple swirls are popping up everywhere, be it decorations or a symbol on my door. I want to ask, what does this have to do with me?"

Xemnas raised his eyebrows in surprise. "You mean you haven't realized yet? I gave you that dream. Because of your being a human and your being in this castle, I have the ability to control what you dream, which are all unconscious thoughts and pictures from experiences you've had in the past, melded together, while you are unconscious. All I really needed to do was meld those thoughts and pictures in the right sequence to give you that dream. I gave it to you as a sort of hint. It is up to you to interpret it. Tell me, what do those swirls look like to you?" he asked me, trying to push me in the right direction. What direction, I had no idea. I gained a thoughtful expression and began pondering. Darkness? Impossible. Normal human beings can't control darkness, well except Riku, but he's not normal.

Axel just stood there with his arms folded across his chest, tapping his foot impatiently. When I still hadn't figured it out, he dropped his arms and groaned. "Don't tell me you haven't figured it out yet," he said. "I'd only heard about this just now and I figured out what it was right away," he said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

I glared. "Well excuse me, but I'm not exactly fantastic at puzzles and riddles. I can barely do Sudoku!" I exclaimed. Geeze, it's like he expects me to be the smartest person in the world! News flash fire boy, I'M NOT!

Xemnas stood up immediately. "That is enough, VIII. We will let her figure it out for herself," he said, waving his hand towards me. Axel held a defiant look, but complied nonetheless. I took notice of how Xemnas didn't even seem to realize that Axel held a rebellious streak in him. In the end, it would be his downfall. If it weren't for Axel, Sora might not have been able to get to Xemnas and defeat him with all those Nobodies attacking him. I sighed inwardly, knowing Axel would eventually die because of his own stupidity of using his entire being to destroy those Nobodies.

Axel looked at me curiously but didn't question the look on my face. I wonder if he understood that some things were better left unsaid or felt it better not to ask him in front of his Superior.

"Well? Are you leaving or are you not?" Xemnas remarked.

I snapped out of my thoughts and replied, "Well duh. Anything to get out of here," I smirked.

Axel snapped his fingers and a black portal appeared out of nowhere, swirling wisps of darkness escaping from it. He dragged me into the portal and for once, this portal seemed to be the same as the ones in the game. As soon as the portal closed up behind us, I asked Axel, "Why is this portal like a hallway instead of a black hole?"

He walked beside me while I stared at the floating Nobody insignias that swam around the ceiling, if you could call it that. A mass of swirling colors made up the walls around us and I stared around in wonder. "It's because going to worlds and teleporting to different rooms in the castle are different things. Those small portals we were using use less energy than these. Going to different worlds takes a lot more out of us than you humans think."

"It never quite explained that in the game…I never knew you had to use up energy to get from place to place," I said thoughtfully. "I always thought you could make a portal and boom, end up in the place you wanted. Then again, I took everything for granted and this isn't the game. I guess things are a little different…"

He snorted. "Duh. Of course it's different."

"Yeah, in the game, you and Demyx never even talked to each other," I pointed out. He shrugged.

"The game misses things I guess. I don't know. I've never played it and I don't want to. Who really wants to know their future? A being who doesn't exist isn't supposed to have a future," he said bitterly. He began striding ahead and I gave him a look of sympathy. I didn't know what it was like to be a Nobody, unfeeling and unexisting, but I pitied the Nobodies. I always have. They don't deserve the fate they've been given. I vaguely remembered a scene for Kingdom Hearts II, Saix reaching out to the giant heart in the sky, saying, "Kingdom Hearts…where is…my heart…" Even the berserker wanted to be human. I clenched my shaking fists.

It was right then and there that I decided to do something about this. There had to be a way to make them all human. There just had to be, besides collecting hearts for Kingdom Hearts because that obviously didn't work. But what did I know about hearts? Absolutely nothing. Even Ansem the Wise hardly knew anything about hearts and he spent almost his whole life studying them and in the end, he died because he misjudged the power of hearts. If only there was a way…

Axel turned around and saw me staring at the ground with an angry expression. They don't deserve this, I kept thinking. Maybe Xemnas does for being an idiot, but everyone else…

"C'mon," Axel said. "Let's go." He took my hand and led me out of the portal to the world that I've been dreaming of going to for years, constant imaginings of coming here and meeting Jack Sparrow and Will Turner, all of those dreams, finally came true.

I was in Port Royal. And I was happier than any girl alive. I gasped in wonder at the 18th century style homes and shops and almost shouted with glee. Ignoring all of the hustle and bustle around me, I ran through Port Royal with Axel shouting after me. "HEY, COME BACK!" I ignored him and kept running until I saw the port, the beautiful ocean glistening in the bright sunlight. Steering away from the ships, I ran to the beach since it was fairly close by and the port was farther out in the ocean so the ships wouldn't be knocked over when a wave hit. As I reached the beach, I couldn't help but feel at peace.

A broad smile spread across my face and I twirled in happiness, giddy with excitement, then fell into the soft, white sand. The rolling waves barely reached my feet and I inhaled the sweet, salty air of the ocean. It reminded me of home. My hands dug into the sand as I inhaled the air deeply. I wanted it to linger, the scent, the sight, everything. This, to me, was paradise. Hearing footsteps behind me, I turned to see Axel keeled over with his hands on his knees, panting. Oops. I guess in my excitement, I ran so fast it wiped out Axel. Hah. That's not something you see everyday.

"What's the matter, Axel? Couldn't keep up?" I asked with a smirk. He glared and crossed his arms.

"You ran like a cheetah. How do you expect me to keep up with you?" I looked up at him in surprise. I ran that fast? Wait…maybe it's my power! But that has nothing to do with purple swirls…

He rolled his eyes, suspecting what I was thinking. "No, it's not your power. Not even close. Though where your burst of energy came from, I'll never know…" he muttered.

I playfully stuck out my tongue and went back to relaxing. The warm breeze whipped at my dark red hair, bringing with it the salty tang of the sea. I heaved myself to my feet and walked closer towards the water with Axel hanging back away from it. Staring behind me, I almost smacked my hand to my face at his stupidity. "You pussy, water isn't going to hurt you. If anything, you might get seaweed around your legs," I said.

He growled. "I hate water. I don't know how much clearer I can make that point with you people." I raised an eyebrow.

"Then why do you and Demyx get along so well? You're polar opposites. Water and fire."

"What our elements are has nothing to do with how well we get along. As long as we don't use our powers on each other, we get along perfectly."

I shook my head and stared off at the sea with longing. I longed to be on one of those ships, having fantastic adventures with the great Captain Jack Sparrow. It was at that particular moment when a small ship, more like a boat with sails, began sailing towards the port. Looking for the familiar red bandana and dread locks, I stared intently at the one manning the helm, but, unfortunately, it was too far away to see straight.

Axel placed a hand on my shoulder and I looked at him in surprise. He gave me a kind smile, surprisingly, and said, "C'mon Rilo." I blinked.

"We're going already? But we just got here!" I exclaimed. NOOOO! I'M NOT LEAVING! HELL NO! I REFUSE! I promised myself I would see Jack Sparrow and by jelly I'm sticking by it!

He looked at me in surprise. "There's nothing for you to do here. Why did you come here, anyway?" he asked.

"To see Jack Sparrow! Duh!" was my response. He scratched the back of his red mane of hair. I love his hair. Red is one of my favorite colors.

"Can't you see him later?" he asked with a note of exasperation in his voice. I shook my head furiously.

"Uh-uh. No way," I said stubbornly.

He sighed then rolled his eyes. "Fine. But what are you going to do in the meantime?" he questioned.

I crossed my arms and tapped my foot in thought. Hm…What should I do? Oh! I know! I'll go see Will!

"I'll go see Will!" I said aloud. Axel quirked an eyebrow.

"Huh? Who's he?" My expression turned into a smirk.

"Oh, someone," I responded vaguely, the smirk changing into a mischievous smile. I made a U-turn and started heading back towards the town, looking for the blacksmith shop with Axel following behind me.

Walking down the cobblestone streets, I looked left and right for any sign that was even remotely related to blacksmiths. I puffed out my cheeks in frustration when I hadn't seen a single sign that signified where Will Turner worked. Finally, I came across exactly what I was looking for. Yes! The blacksmith shop was right here! To think that Will and Jack hosted their epic sword battle right here in this very shop... I couldn't wait to meet Jack, but right now, I'll go see Will.

I cracked open the door and saw Will banging on what looked to be a new sword. With each blow, the red hot metal blew sparks in every direction, Will squinting his eyes so the sparks wouldn't burn them. Suddenly I had an idea... I looked behind me to make sure Axel was still there then entered the shop.

Will never noticed that I entered the room, concentrating more on melding the sword than anyone who was coming in. What I thought to be the owner was asleep on a large, wooden chair with his head lolling on his shoulder, a rum bottle clutched in his hand as he snored loudly. The dark haired boy continued on with his melding when I randomly shouted, "Wiiiiill! Jack's better than you!" With quick thinking, I ducked behind a few barrels that were conveniently placed close to the door. Axel ducked behind the door, though I don't know why.

He jumped a little then turned around to see nobody there. "Who said that?" Will called out. I jumped out of my hiding place, surprising Will, the grabbed Axel by the cloak and dragged him into the room.

"He did it!" I said. Poor Will looked so confused, it was actually pretty funny.

"Wait a minute, I didn't say anything!" Axel said indignantly.

"HE DID IT!" I shouted then ran away in a random direction, giggling madly to myself.

Ending up in an alley way, I leaned against the wall, still laughing at what happened. I didn't see Axel anywhere, so I wondered if I'd lost him somewhere. Panting, I wiped my forehead of the sweat that dotted my forehead.

Suddenly it seemed as if I wasn't alone anymore. A shiver went up my spine as I saw two drunken men heading my way. I backed away, trying my hardest to hide the fear in my eyes, and began casually walking away as if nothing was wrong, though my heart pounded madly.

A large, meaty hand landed on my shoulder and I could smell the putrid stench of liquor coating the man's breath.

"'Ello girly," the man sneered and the other one, a skinnier looking fellow, came up to me as well.

At that moment I knew I was in some deep shit.

Eryn: Yay! Done! Not as long as the last chapter but fairly long. Hope you enjoy it! Ciao my good friends. :D