Here is the newest chapter of 'Sunset Angels'! Sorry for the late update, there were so many hw, projects from school. there is a event coming on soon... More work! darn it!
It's my first story, so sorry for the wrong grammar and my writing skill. Btw, 'workboys' is a word i made which means teenage boys who work. Strange, i know.
I don't own Kingdom Hearts! On with the story!
Sunset Angels
Chapter 2: Dinner + 'Workboys' = Trouble?
Xion let herself fell backwards onto the summer night cool bed, not caring her short black hair became messy. It was summer, which supposes to be hot, but the air at the mountain felt cool during the night. And that is a good thing. She was so tired from the ride. But it would be dinner time soon and she didn't want to miss it. So, she decided only to rest on the bed for awhile. The bedroom wasn't really big and not small either. It was able to fit in another ten to fifteen people. The room was furnished with a wooden round table with two chairs, a fairly big wooden dresser and a dressing table. There was also a small window, which will allow the cool wind in to cool down the room. Xion had taken a small tour around the cabin and it was larger than she anticipated.
Namine, Kairi and her had agreed that each of them took a room, as for Mai. She can choose who she wanted to sleep with every night. Mai's violet eyes were full of sparkles and she kept on nodding her head, agreeing our idea. She is so cute~
Xion was stowing her clothes into the dresser's drawers when her three 'cabin mates' entered her room, looking at her like lost and hungry puppies. "Aunt Xion, we are hungry. Do we have any food here?" Mai asked as her walked towards Xion. Xion smiled and picked her up like a fragile baby. "Sorry, honey. We don't have a kitchen here, so we can't cook any food. We don't have any ingredients either."
"Aw~" Kairi and Mai sighed in unison, but Xion quickly comforted them. "But, there is a cantina not far from here. We could use a walk to stretch our legs and I'm feeling hungry myself too."
Grumble grumble grumble
Mai smiled and pointed at Kairi, "Hahaha! Kairi's stomach is grumbling!" Kairi blushed in embarrassed for the second time of that day.
"Come on! I'm hungry!" Kairi bawled and pushed all of them out the cabin within seconds.
The bright yellow full moon shone onto the land, lighting up the once dark road. Stars were unnoticeable due to the bright moonlight. The sky was clear from clouds and the air was fresh and cold when it made contact to their skin. If not for the buzzing mosquitoes, it would have been a perfect night. The cantina was dotted with handful cowboys, workmen and some 'workboys'. Some of the cowboys' lazy eyes falling onto the three teenage girls when they entered with a small girl with them. Xion felt uncomfortable by their gaze, so she insisted the girls to seat a table that is located in a secluded corner. A tall man neared them; he has greyish-blue hair which covered most of his right face. Xion had no idea how he looks like under that long fringe of his. His eyes scanned from Namine to Mai then to Xion as he passed them the menus.
"So, you three must be newcomers as I haven't seen you around. Welcome to Devil's Mount. I wish you have a nice stay here." He said to them with an emotionless voice. He seems to be bored somehow.
"Yeah! We arrived about an hour ago! And thank you!" Mai told him sweetly.
The man simply nodded and jerked his dark-coloured eyes around to the innocent looking Kairi, whose face plastered with a wide grin. "Hi, ya Zi-Zi! Remember me?"
The man chuckled and said, "Of course, you little trouble maker. I haven't seen you awhile. How long have it been? You sure have grown a lot. Where's your father, child?" He said and scanned around the room.
Kairi shook her head and replied, "It had been almost four years, I guess. This time, I came with two ugly maids, my two best friends, Xion and Namine, and Xion's niece, Mai." She said while pointing to her friends when she mentioned their name. "Daddy went to a business trip last week and won't be back for a full long month."
"Hello to you all. My name is Zexion, and I'll be your waiter and chef for tonight." Zexion held out his hand and shook with Namine and Xion. As for Mai, he only used his index finger due to her small hand. "Take your time to study the menu. I'll be back after a few minutes." They nodded and Xion watched him strolled away and into a larger room which she thought it would be the kitchen. They studied the menu carefully. Xion found out that the menu was mostly cowboys theme, and woods theme. There was a picture of rattlesnake at the bottom corner of 'Cowboys' Favourite' at the front page, and a picture of squirrel at the top right corner of 'Woods Wonders' at the back page. Xion suddenly lost her appetite. Maybe she will just order pizza, knowing that it was Mai's favourite too.
"Ooooh. Rattlesnake looks inviting, doesn't it, girls?" Kairi said as she pointed the picture of the snake.
"Eh~ I don't think I can swallow it… I'll just have a plate of fried rice with some squirrel's meat. I can handle squirrel but not snake." Namine said and placed her menu down, obviously final to her decision. Xion looked at Mai and asked her, "Do you want pizza with extra cheese? Or you want other food?"
"I want pizza!" Mai smiled and raised her little arms into the air, looking very excited. Great. She will have pizza then. Her stomach will be sick if she chose squirrel or rattlesnake. They were deciding what drink they should have when Xion heard a male voice which almost made her jump out of her skin. She turned quickly and saw the man was seated cozily beside her; his face was mere inches from hers.
"Hey there, gorgeous." He smiled at her and she felt goosebumps formed on her skin. He scanned Xion up and down in the speed of light and added, "I'm Seifer Willis. I'll be seeing you around since I work near the cabins site." Tried not to be rude, Xion said, "Really? I see…" She quickly ended their eye contact and sat nearer to Mai, wishing this Seifer guy will just leave them alone. He looked very proud of himself for some reasons and he smelled like a damp horse. Seifer was still smirking at Xion when Kairi whipped out, "Hey Seifer. Still dating that girl that came from Traverse Town?"
The smirk died and as he sorted out an answer, two more male walked towards their table. One has extremely spiky red hair while seems to need dozen of hair gels to get it look like that. He also has a green tear-shaped tattoo under both his emerald eyes. The other male has shoulder length silver hair and also has green eyes. Xion couldn't help but blushed a little when their eyes met. 'He was handsome…'
The redhead man was the first to speak, with a huge grin on his face. "Hello, girls! Welcome to Devil's Mount. I'm Axel Alexander-"
"Forget him, little ladies." The silver haired one cut in. He said 'ladies' but his eyes was still laid on Xion. There were a charming smile on his face and Xion noticed a faint of dimples dotted on his cheeks. "The name Riku Randifer. That's a name you'll be wanting to remember." Xion sighed and looked away. Ever since experienced the breakup with Demyx, she will need awhile to mend. She didn't want to get involved with anyone at Devil's Mount either. Xion was about to call Zexion to take their orders when she heard Riku's voice right behind her. "Get away, Seifer. Little lady wants a man, not a puffball like you." "What!? What did you just call me?" Seifer stood up and faced Riku. He never like that silver headed fool.
"A P-U-F-F-B-A-L-L. Puffball." Riku spelled out the word slowly. He seems to enjoy mocking Seifer. Seifer's face turned into seven different shades of red and without warning, he threw a punch towards Riku's face. All the girls at the table cried out in surprise when he threw the punch. Xion quickly covered Mai's eyes, not wanting her to watch someone fight. Riku dodged the attack easily and sent a quick uppercut to Seifer's poor chin. Seifer stumbled backward, tripped over the leg of the table's bench, and fell to the floor with a loud thump, which caught everybody's attention in the cantina, excluded Zexion, who had a notepad in hand and was writing something down.
There was a moment of silent until a stern male voice filled the whole cantina, "What in Kingdom Hearts is happening here!?" The cowboys and workmen which had circled around them moved away to let a certain person passed by. Xion even heard some of them greeted him 'boss'. He must be an important and powerful man. Xion was expected to see a full grown man (maybe even with moustache) to show up, but instead to her surprise (so was Kairi's and Namine's), it was a teenage around the age of 22 stepped into the circle. A boy like that is a boss? Many of the cowboys were like double or even triple times his age! He has spiky blond hair, which was pointing to many random directions, a pair of sea blue eyes like hers and a well built figure. 'He was even more handsome than Riku… What! What are you thinking of Xion!? Get a hold of yourself! You're not here to drool over boys!' Xion shut her eyes and shook her head, tried to shake everything out of her mind. Xion opened her eyes and looked at the boy again. He was furious and not friendly looking at all…
"Anyone cares to tell me what happened here!? Seifer! Get your ass off the ground or else I'll cut down your salary again!" The blond man quickly scrambled to his feet and straightens up himself in front of the young boss.
"Eh hehe. Hi there, sir." Seifer said sheepishly, scratching the back of his head. The young boss was almost the same height as Seifer, but Seifer is still the highest among the two of them.
The young boss glared at Seifer coldly and told him, "Don't 'hehe' me, Seifer." The spiky blond turned his head and faced Axel, who was still grinning like the – what does it called- the Cheshire or something Cat in Wonderland. "Mind to tell the whole story, Ax?" The redhead just shook his head and started the 'story'.
"I was walking down the road to the cantina and I met Riku on the way. So we decided to walk together. When we came in, greetings were given to us as usual. Then, I saw Riku was just staring at one location. I followed his gaze then saw Seifer sat beside a short black haired girl, who looks kind of annoyed by him. By the way, there were three teenage girls and a small girl at the table. So, we decided to walk up and introduced ourselves to the newcomers. I was saying my name but it was harshly cut in by Riku. How dare you cut in while I'm talking, Riku!" Axel growled and pointed at Riku, who was crossing his arms and looked away, pretending he knew nothing about it. Axel cleared his throat and continued, "As I was saying, Riku and I introduced ourselves to the ladies. Then, Riku told Seifer to get away from the black haired girl. Said that little lady wants a man and not a puffball. He was indicating Seifer about the 'puffball' thing. Then, Seifer got angry easily by the name calling. Riku continued mocking him and unexpectedly, Seifer threw a hard punch to Riku. Then, Riku ducked the attack and gave Seifer an uppercut. Seifer, I think, tripped over the bench's foot that's why he fell down. The next moment of silent, you (Axel pointed at the young boss) showed up. Then you asked me to tell you the story. So, I said, "I was walking down-""
"Hush, Axel. That's all the information I need to know." The young boss said and looked around him. That was when Xion also noticed that everyone is still circling around them. "What are you all looking at!? Get back to your own seat!" The man yelled and everyone scrambled back to their original location like rats running away from a cat. Xion was so shocked by his sudden yell that she didn't noticed Axel, Riku and Seifer were gone. "-sigh- Good for nothing wights (means human being in old time)." The young man said to himself softly. The man turned towards the newcomers and glared at Xion. He was angry at her for some reasons.
"Hey there, Mr. Strife! I'm back! Glad to meet me again?" Kairi said and waved to the young boss. He studied the redhead girl before saying, "Kairi Minami. Where's your father?"
"He's on a business trip for a month. This time, I came with two buffoons and my best friends. Let me introduce. This here is Namine." Kairi pointed to Namine who's just beside her. Namine gave the man a soft 'hello'. "This little one is Xion's niece, Mai." Mai smiled at the man and said nothing. "Lastly, Xion." Xion tried to smile and nodded a greeting to him.
Mr. Strife eyes rolled around to deliver a scrutinizing look over Xion's small form. Kairi saw this then said, "Xion is pretty, isn't she? Mr. Vexen thinks so. You all should have seems his face when he looked at Xion's curve when she's in her uniform."
Xion's face turned deep apple red. She didn't know that! "W-what!? He what!?" She cried out in surprise. Kairi still wore on her innocent looking face and continued, "I even heard him said to himself. If he was still single, he would have asked you out the moment he saw you." Xion's eyes were wide open. She can hardly believe it. Are those real? Xion's face was flaming red like Axel's hair and she was speechless.
"You're so cute when you blushed, Xion!" Kairi squealed happily. Xion covered both her cheek with her palms and cried back, "No, I'm not!" How can she say out such embarrassing things about her in front of a stranger! There is a possibility that half of the people in the cantina heard it too. She had to change the subject before Kairi told even more embarrassing things to Mr. Strife!
"Aren't we here for dinner? I'll order our foods. Zexi-" Xion was about to call Zexion but found out that he was walking towards them with one wooden tray in each hand. "Here's your food." He said and placed the orders onto the table. After the last plate was placed on the table, he silently walked back to the kitchen with empty trays.
Xion looked at his retreating figure, totally stunned. They haven't even order yet. How would he know what they want to eat? Xion turned her head back to the table and looked at the foods. To her surprise, every dish was exactly what they wanted. There was the squirrel meat fried rice Namine wanted, the roasted rattlesnake meat Kairi really wanted to try, pizza with a lot of cheese for Mai and herself, and four glasses of fresh cold lemonade. Zexion surely is an extraordinary person.
"Let's dig in!" Kairi said and tackled her dish with her fork. Namine, a polite girl as always, picked up her spoon and fork and started eating like a princess. Mai just took a slice of pizza and started to take little bite one at a time. Xion wanted to start her dinner too, but the gaze from Mr. Strife was really uncomfortable. Xion sat on the bench quietly, hoping the stranger would walk away and let them be alone. But she had the feeling that he won't be going anywhere until he had spoken his piece.
"Roxas Strife." He introduced in a harsh voice. "You're Xion, right?"
Xion nodded and swallowed the lump in her throat before eased out, "Xion Lockhart."
Roxas nodded and continued, "I'm the oldest son of the owner of this ranch and recreational area. I would like you and your friends here to have a nice stay here. But I'll be even happier if you let those workmen's and cowboys' attention stayed on their jobs and not on you. Am I clear, Ms. Lockhart?"
Xion stared wide-eyes-opened at him. She is so furious by his open audacity. She was a guest for the sake of Kingdom Hearts! She wasn't intended of flirt with the 'workboys' in the first place and it wasn't her fault that they fights! Or is it? And why is it only her? What about Namine and Kairi? She won't tell him her answer, not in a million years. Let him think what he wanted for all she cares. She hated these kinds of confrontations which served no purpose but everything is said and done. Xion chose to ignore his existence and ate her pizza, before Mai has all of them for herself.
Roxas narrowed his blue eyes onto Xion. He had a feeling that Ms. Xion Lockhart will be a trouble with a capital 'T'. He knew her type; beautiful, yet packed inside of an innocent looking Pandora's Box.
Just before Xion was able to open her mouth and asked Roxas if he can gave them privacy, Roxas went on, "In the future, if you and your friends need anything with assistance, call me first. Even better, let me handle all the outdoor activities. I can't stand any of my men to get on a love rollercoaster and got down from a lovesick one. I won't like them be all sickish during work."
Roxas looked at Xion's shocked face and her slightly open lips. Roxas's lips twitched a little at the corner. Something just made him like to see her shocked face. After a moment to let her absorbed in the shock, he asked, "Here for the week?"
"We're rooting here for two months!" Mai yelled out, with cheese sauce stuck around her mouth. Roxas rolled his eyes. 'Great! Two full months!? This is going to be a torture. What can they do in this two months time? Uh~ I have some paperwork to do…' Roxas thought and walked out from the cantina. Xion watched him leave. A part of her was happy, but the other part was… felt different than before. 'Must be from the ride today…' She thought and continued to bite her pizza.
"See how messy you eat, you little pig," Xion smiled and wiped Mai's mouth with her lacy blue handkerchief. Xion placed her dirtied handkerchief on the table and she was about to take another bite when Kairi suddenly asked, "So… Who do you think is much more handsome? Riku Randifer or Roxas Strife?"
"What?" Xion asked.
"Come on, Xion. Who do you think is cuter? I think Riku is okay," Kairi said.
"None of them…" Xion replied plainly and bit her pizza. She didn't want to think of them right now. Especially the name 'Roxas Strife', thinking of him will only make her feel angry than before.
"Boo… You're no fun. How 'bout cha, Namine?" Kairi turned and asked her.
"Um…" Namine blushed a little and said softly, "Roxas…"
"Oooo… Do you have a crush on him already? Huh? Do ya? Do ya?" Kairi said, leaning closer to Namine.
"Eh… Um…You only asked us who is cuter. So I think is Roxas. But that doesn't mean I like him, right? You said is Riku, but you don't like him, right?" Namine defended herself. Kairi looked away and tapped her chin.
"Ya… You do have a point there." Then, she quickly finished her last ring of rattlesnake meat. Xion gave out a soft sigh and finished her dinner in locked silence. Xion felt a sudden jolt and turned around, but everyone was chatting among each other, not even one of them was looking at the group of girls. She pressed her lips together and continued her dinner. Ignoring whoever was staring at them (or her) just now.
The end of Chapter 2. The ending is just like the previous chapter, i know. I just didn't know how to end it. Hahaha! XD The next chapter will be out by next week... I think.
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