"Roxas," Namine said as she ran into his arms and they hugged for a quick moment before breaking the embrace. They were all standing in the downtown area of Radiant Garden. Namine looked over to see a boy who looked a whole lot like Roxas had when they had dressed him up as Sora.
"Namine, this is Sora. He used to be my cousin but now we're not so sure," Roxas introduced and Namine nodded. "Sora, this is Namine." Namine nodded and so did Sora.
"Wait, what do you mean that you're not sure," Namine asked, just catching on to the statement.
"Well, we though we were cousins and we were always told that but our records and things like that all say that we have the same mom and are twins born two minutes apart," Roxas told her all in one breath.
"Wow, you get arrested and we're apart for one day and you find all this out," Namine asked.
"Yeah, well, I don't know exactly how it happened either," Roxas said rubbing the back of his head.
"Okay, can we get to work here? Where do we start," Axel asked and they all nodded.
"We have to find my mom. I know where she lived when I was with her but I don't know if she moved or not but it's a clue," Roxas told them.
"Now the difficulty of getting there," Sora added.
"Hollow Bastion is a good ways away and you can't get to it unless it's by a bus or car or something," Roxas told them and they all nodded.
"There were police all around the bus station this morning," Namine told them.
"That means that they think we're still and town and they're trying to trap us here," Roxas thought out loud as he looked over to Sora.
"If they've got the bus station then they've got the roads too," Sora reminded him.
"They're acting like it's a man hunt," Roxas exclaimed.
"Well it basically is, we're suspected of murder, remember. We're also escaped convicts," Sora told him.
"That means we can't get caught until our name is clear or they could put us in jail for the next week and if they find any more 'evidence' that we committed the murder of someone then they would put us in jail for the next twenty-five years at the least," Roxas thought out loud.
"Man, you guys are in trouble," Demyx told them.
"Seriously, we have to find a way to get around without people finding us," Sora though and Roxas sighed while and thinking. He looked over at Namine as he was thinking and then a smile crossed his face.
"I think I've got a plan."
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Roxas and Sora stayed low as they looked at Roxas' house. Roxas started to count the cars near or around it that were misplaced.
"I counted seven," Roxas told Sora.
"Me too," Sora told him and Namine looked at the two in awe.
"You guys sound like you've done this before," Namine told them and Sora looked back at her with a small smile.
"Once or twice, what, you didn't know you're boyfriend was a criminal, did you," Sora whispered with a wide grin.
"Shut up, Sora," Roxas snapped, trying to keep off the subject.
"Fine, fine," Sora told him, putting his hands up in a defensive position. Roxas just rolled his eyes.
"There's only one watching the east side of the house near the garage. You guys distract him some way and Sora and I will get the dirt bike out of the house unnoticed," Roxas instructed and they all nodded. Roxas and Sora watched as the others went in for their part. They surrounded every angle of the car so he couldn't see out. Roxas held his breath, hoping it would work.
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Namine hoped that Roxas knew what he was doing.
"Hey mister, don't you know that this is private property," Demyx asked as they walked up and covered every angle of view that the large man had of the house.
"Yeah, why don't you kids beat it," the man told them.
"Well that isn't very nice, you know we could call the police on you," Axel told the man and the man sighed.
"I am the police kid," the man told him.
"Really you don't look like one. I mean all those police people on the TV where uniforms and ride in cars that have bright lights that go, wee-woo wee-woo," Demyx told him and Namine held back a laugh.
"You'll have to excuse our brother, he's a little hyper active," Larxene told him as she whispered the last part.
"I don't care, all of you leave now," the man said.
"I'm not so sure sir. You see, for us to leave, I would have to see a warrant. Then you might prove that you're a cop," Axel told him.
"Yeah, otherwise, it's illegal to park here," Namine added.
"I don't have to answer to you brats," the man told them and Axel shook his head as Larxene took out her phone.
"Okay, you can't say we didn't warn you," Larxene told him before the man put up his hands.
"Fine, fine," he said as he began to look through some papers that were lying around the car. As he did, Axel watched out of the corner of his eye as Roxas and Sora pulled the dirt bike out the back door of the garage. Right about that time the man shoved the piece of paper at Axel since he seemed to be the oldest. Axel took the paper and took a quick glance before sighing and handing the paper back.
"I'm going to have to get my mom to look over this," Axel told him in a matter-of-fact tone.
"If you all don't get out of here now I'm going to have to arrest you," the man said as he started to get angry again.
"What charge, unless you made one up," Larxene told him.
"No, you're interfering with a case while we speak, and that is a serious crime in its own sense," the man told them and Axel looked at the house out of the corner of his eye again. He had hoped that the guy hadn't been that smart to have remembered that charge that quick but it seemed that Sora and Roxas had already completed their jobs.
"Fine, we'll leave you alone then," Axel told the man and he motioned for the others and they all walked away down the street toward where Roxas and Sora had told them to meet. They soon found them at the edge of the town.
"Nice job," Sora told them.
"Yeah, he didn't even look over for a second," Roxas added.
"I was surprised you got that out of the house without any seeing, but won't your parents notice it missing," Namine asked.
"Yeah, maybe, but I don't think they'll tell the police and it hadn't looked like they had searched the garage yet because everything was where it belonged," Roxas told her.
"Hey, I don't mean to blow anyone's amazing plan here, but how are we all supposed to ride on that," Larxene asked as she pointed to the bike. It was a pretty good sized dirt bike but it wouldn't have been able to carry all of them.
"I'll be riding the dirt bike with Namine," Roxas said with a smile.
"Then what about the rest of us," Demyx asked.
"They ride should be here right…about…now," Sora told them as he looked up from his watch at an approaching truck. The truck stopped and an odd looking man with a toothpick in his mouth and goggles on his head climbed out.
"Hey Cid," Roxas and Sora called together.
"You know him," Namine whispered to Roxas.
"Yeah, he used to live next door to the school Sora and I want to. We got sent to his shop to help after some kids vandalized it and we got blamed. We kind of struck up a friendship from there," Roxas explained.
"I've seen you boys on the news lately, didn't figure that you actually killed someone," Cid told them as he walked back to a trailer that was behind his truck. On the back of it sat three other dirt bikes and set of black helmets.
"Thanks Cid, we owe you one," Roxas told him as he helped Sora unload them.
"Don't worry about it, I still owe you for finding out who it was who was stealing those things from my shop," Cid told him as he reached back into his truck and pulled out six headsets. "And here, you guys can have these as a present. Talk to each other from any distance. You can use them while you're riding," he explained as he tossed them to Sora.
"Can the cops tap into them," Roxas asked as he took one.
"Do you really think I would make anything that the police could get into," Cid asked as he climbed into the truck and started it up. H e waved as he turned it around and left.
"Why wouldn't he make anything that the police could tap into," Namine asked when he was gone.
"Let's just say he really likes his privacy," Roxas told her with a laugh.
"Okay, while you were at getting these bikes, why didn't you get two more," Larxene asked.
"Cid has helped us a lot in the past," Sora told her as he climbed on one of the bikes.
"Your point," Larxene asked.
"The police will look to him after they can't find us in this city. He sales mainly dirt bikes and ATVs, so when nothings reported stolen, they'll look into the contacts and go to him. He only had three bikes in his stash that he keeps in case something happens and cars become unusable," Roxas explained.
"Why would he keep only three," Namine asked.
"Well, he works a lot on creating some for it and the ones he create has a few cool features that take some time to make. Then he has to make them were it doesn't look to suspicious that he's doing it," Sora told her.
"Still, he should have more," Axel said.
"Well, it doesn't help that every time we borrow one it doesn't come back in the best condition," Roxas told them with a laugh.
"Okay, let's get back on track here. I'll drive the black one and Namine can ride with me. Axel, you and Larxene can have the one with the red and yellow stripes and Demyx, you can have the blue one, and Sora gets the green one," Roxas told them.
"Lets get going before the cops show up," Sora told them as he put on one of the headsets and then the pitch black helmet. Roxas did the same and they both had the glass up and Namine found herself staring.
"Namine, what is it," Roxas asked and she smiled a little.
"If you take away the hair, you guys do make perfect twins," she told them and they looked at one another.
"Does that mean you can't tell who your Roxy-poo is and who isn't," Sora asked.
"No, I'll always know which one is Roxas," Namine said as she hugged him. Soon after the others also pulled on their headsets and helmets and they flipped down the black glass on the helmet so no one could see any part of their face, they took off across the field on the dirt bikes.
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"This isn't good, I thought that this problem was taken care," a man yelled as he slammed his fist on a table.
"I assure you that we were told it was, we have no clue how this case was reopened," another told his leader. Twenty-one people sat in a dark room, by a rectangular table. One man sat at the head and the left had ten and the right had ten. One man, sitting farthest from the leader at the head of the table rubbed his forehead because of his headache. He had known that the two boys had been left alive. He had helped his best friend hide them, though he had never thought something like this would happen.
"I should have known they'd be like their father," the man mumbled with a small laugh.
"What was that," the leader yelled.
"Nothing, sir," the man yelled as he looked behind the man at the two pictures that were projected on the board of the boys.
"We need these boys taken out of the field. Even if they know nothing they are still a threat," a man beside the leader said and the leader sighed.
"Bring them here alive if possible, if not, then get rid of them," the leader told them. "Organize yourselves into parties and scout for them. Dismissed," the man at the head of the table ordered. They all stood and left the room.
"You know what this means, don't you," a man with black hair asked as he walked up beside the one who had interrupted the meeting.
"Yeah," the other told him. "This just became a life or death game of hid and go seek."
"We have to find those two before anyone else if they even want a chance," a woman who had joined them added.
"Yeah, Sora and Roxas better be have gotten a lot of natural talent, or they're going to be killed."
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Kidd: It was a morbid way to end a chapter, but a mysterious way.
Emma: Sorry it took us so long but we keep having writers block.
Erin: We know what we want to happen but we are still working out on how to fit it together and stuff.
Kidd: It helps when we replay the game although Sora seems very strange in this story now since we did.
Emma: Anyway, review please, we would really appreciate it!
