DAY 370 ~ Searching
(Chapter 6)
I didn't see Axel until a couple days after our conversation on the clock tower. He caught me in the hallway that morning.
"Hey, Roxas," Axel said. "I asked Saïx about that girl.."
"What did he say??" I cut in. I didn't exactly mean to be rude, but I felt like I needed to know.
"Heh.." Axel sighed. "He said…well, he told me that he didn't know what you were talking about. But you never know with Saïx, right?"
"I guess.." I was disappointed, honestly. I really wanted to know. "Maybe I'll have to look for the answers on my own."
"No you don't," Axel replied.
"What do you mean?"
"I can help," Axel nodded. "That's what friends are for, right?"
"Oh…thank you, then," I said. "I hope we can find answers…"
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That day's mission was to gather hearts in the Deep Jungle. I came across those ape things again, but only at a distance. I guessed that that was good, though.
After my mission, I decided to try to look for more about the girl. I went to Twilight Town--since that's where I remembered most of the stuff--and just walked around for a bit. Nothing came to me, though.
But then I thought…if she was in the organization, wouldn't she have gone to other worlds, too?
I decided to check Agrabah, first. And then, as soon as I arrived, I heard her voice.
"You look pale…" she said. I knew this was a memory…but it almost felt like the present. "You sure you're okay?" Why wouldn't I be? "Well for your information…I worry about you all the time, Roxas."
This time, the memory didn't leave. I had heard her voice so clearly, surely she had been real. She worried about me so much…why did I not remember her completely?
What had happened?
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Axel wasn't on the clock tower that evening. So I had icecream alone. It felt a bit…different, knowing that someone else was missing. Whoever she was…
Suddenly, more memories came back, again. Pictures. Her voice, even.
"If you see somebody else's face…a boy's face…I am almost ready." What was she saying? What…boy? I couldn't see her face in the memory…that was still not there. "This puppet will have to play her part…don't you see…why I was created." Created? What did she mean by that? She was a person, wasn't she?
The images ended, too quickly, and I slipped into unconsciousness.
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"Roxas!" Axel's voice. "Hey, are you okay?"
I didn't know. "What happened?" That was me asking the question…but it didn't feel like me..
"I don't know," I opened my eyes and saw Axel shrugging. "I was on my way to the clock tower and I saw you falling. I managed to uh…catch you. A little."
"A little?" Only then did I start to feel the bruises. I also noticed that we were below the clock tower.
"Well there was about a half a second's notice!" Axel exclaimed. "What else could I have done? At least you're alive. What were you doing, anyway?"
"Umm.." I couldn't remember. "I don't know."
"You don't know??" Axel shook his head. "Anyway…I did look a bit to try to find out about that girl. But I--"
"That's it!" I finally remembered. "I had been up there eating icecream…but then suddenly I got those images again. A bit different, this time, but…I heard her voice, too! She's definitely real. She was real…"
"So the images caused you to faint?" Axel repeated.
"Yeah…I guess." I wondered why the memories had such a strong effect on me. It was…weird…and why did I forget them? "We should RTC."
"I guess so," Axel opened up a portal and we went back.