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DAY 408 ~ Message
((Chapter 21))
In the middle of the night--or early in the morning--Sora's dreams suddenly turned harsh, changing from the peaceful dreams he had been enjoying.
I couldn't tell where he was in the dream, exactly…but for some reason it looked familiar to me. Everything was mostly dark…the only things that could be seen were the water, strangely shaped rocks, and the ground that Sora was standing on.
"Wh…where am I?" Sora wondered out loud.
"You hold the key that we need," a voice said. Sora looked around, but no one was there. The voice sounded familiar to me, as well..
"The key…?" Sora assumed that he meant the keyblade. "What…what do you want!? Who are you??"
"Come, Sora…you are essential to Kingdom Hearts."
"Kingdom Hearts??" The scene around him faded, and Sora then found himself on top of some kind of stained glass design. Everything else was black. "Huh?"
Sora walked to the edge of the design and found that it was the top of a giant pillar. "I've been here, before.." he realized.
And suddenly I wasn't seeing through his eyes, anymore.
I found myself standing on the other side of the pillar, facing him. "Sora.." I said, on instinct.
"Are you…Roxas?" he asked.
I nodded. Looking at the stained glass design, I noticed that it was of Sora, Donald, Goofy, Naminé, Xion, and I on one side, and on the other…the remaining 6 Organization members.
Then I realized…where was Xion? Why wasn't she in the same place that Sora and I were in?
There was no time to think about it, though. Suddenly, from both Sora and my shadows, a giant heartless appeared. I'd never seen one like it, before.
Sora summoned his keyblade. "Can you summon yours?" he asked.
I found that I could--both of them. I nodded and we both attacked the heartless.
It was…weird. It felt like I knew what moves Sora would make. It made fighting the Heartless easier.
I can't remember any details…the whole fight seemed like a blur. It didn't last long, anyway.
"You've passed…" the mysterious voice said in approval, as the scene changed back to where we were, before--including me going back to seeing what Sora did. "Now…"
The scene around me changed again, to the stained glass pillar. But Sora wasn't there, this time.
Where is he? I wondered. And Xion…
"Xion!" I found myself calling out her name. Everything was so wrong. Where--?
Then I was surrounded by white. I looked around, trying to find Xion, but--
And then Sora woke up. He was panting hard, still thinking about the nightmare he had. When I had been away from him, the dream had shown more of Kairi, more of Riku…and the voice had spoken to him more.
"Come to Twilight Town once again."
"Sora?" Apparently Naminé was awake, too. "Are you okay?" She looked worried.
"Uh…yeah. Just some weird dreams," Sora gave one of his easygoing smiles and leaned back against the seat. He yawned, and closed his eyes for a moment before hearing Naminé speak again.
"It will be a while until morning…so you probably have plenty of time to go back to sleep, again," Naminé said.
"I'll try…" Sora looked at Naminé and gave her another smile. "Thanks."
He fell asleep fairly quickly, still tired and exhausted.
The white surrounded…but I still couldn't see Xion.
"Xion!" I called out again. "Where--"
"You have to calm down," a voice said. It was different from the voice Sora had heard in his dream…though, for some reason it felt like I'd heard this voice some time before, too.
I looked around a bit more, and finally I saw Xion. She was…sitting, staring off into space. Not that there was anything else to stare at, anyway..
"Xion…" I walked up beside her. She slowly looked up at me.
It was…weird. She seemed a bit…different. "R…Roxas…" Xion said. "Roxas!" She stood up suddenly, seeming panicked about something. "Roxas…you're here now! Everything was so…empty…and I didn't know…but now it's back to normal, right?"
"Wh…I'm not sure what you're talking about," it was all so confusing. "What was empty? And what didn't you know?"
Xion seemed a bit more subdued when she answered, this time. "Everything…it was all just…black. I could see…some colored light in the distance. And a giant heartless…I saw people fighting it…I think it was you and Sora…but the darkness was everywhere! It kept me from remembering your names…from remembering you…"
So she had been…out in the darkness, back then? But…why?
"How did you get there?" I found myself asking.
"I don't know…" Xion sighed, crossing her arms in front of her. "I thought it was a dream, at first…Sora's dream. But then I realized that I wasn't…in his mind. I was on my own…and I saw Xemnas…"
"Xemnas??" Was that who the voice in Sora's dream had been? "What did he say? Did he say anything?"
"No," Xion shook her head. "But I keep feeling like…like I'm losing myself…"
Her eyes started to…water. Like she was about to cry. I remembered when I did that…how I felt like I was missing too many of my memories…
I don't know why I did, but I put my arms around Xion. It…felt right. Like an instinct. "You won't lose yourself," I promised her. I hoped that I was right. "Remember? We'll always remember each other…I won't forget you." Not again. "You won't fade…" Was I really reassuring her or myself? It felt like a bit of both..
"I just hope…" Xion began, leaning against me just slightly, "that you're right."
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"Chip, Dale," Sora said, yawning, once he woke up again. "Can we head back to Twilight Town?"
"Why do you want to do that?" Chip asked. "What about Halloween?"
Sora hesitated, knowing that he couldn't tell anyone about the dream he had. "It's alright…but I feel like we should head back to Twilight Town." he glanced at Naminé. "And if we see DiZ, we can leave again."
"Well…okay," Chip started pressing a few buttons on the Gummi Ship.
Soon, we were on our way back to where my life had started.
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"Remind me why we came here, again?" Donald complained.
Sora wasn't sure what to tell him. It had only been a dream, but it also felt like more than just that..
"I wanted to come," Naminé claimed. "To see Twilight Town, again." She gave Sora a look, pleading for him to go along with her story.
"Yeah," Sora nodded.
Donald groaned and stared up at the clock tower.
'I remember when we always used to eat ice cream up there…' Xion told me.
'Yeah..' If only we could go back to those days.
"Let's go look around for a bit," Sora suggested. The voice had said to come to Twilight Town, but it didn't specify where..
What if the voice was Xemnas's… I wondered. Then was coming here a bad idea?
Sora led the way towards the Twilight Town plaza. Naminé seemed a b
it nervous; she glanced around every few seconds.
"You okay?" Sora asked.
Naminé nodded. "It's just…we need to be careful."
"DiZ, again?" Sora wondered.
Naminé nodded. Then a group of kids, Pence, Hayner, and Olette, walked by. They stopped when they saw Sora and his friends.
"Hey there," Pence greeted. "Are you new, here?"
"Uh…yeah, something like that," Sora answered. "I'm Sora."
"It's nice to meet you," Pence grinned. "My name's Pence."
"I'm Olette," the brunette girl beside him said. "And this quiet rude one is Hayner."
Hayner just scoffed and continuing staring off into space.
"Do you need help finding anything?" Pence asked.
"No, I don't think so.." Sora replied. We just--"
Suddenly the ground shook a but and the air around them seemed to be warped. But Hayner, Pence, and Olette were frozen. A man with some kind of red cloak, and his head wrapped in red bandages, appeared.
"DiZ!" Naminé exclaimed, taking a step back. "But that means we're in…but how??"
"When the four of you flew into Twilight Town," the man, DiZ began explaining, "you came through an invisible portal to the one I have created."
"Wh-who are you??" Sora demanded, getting ready to summon his keyblade. "What do you want??"
Ignoring Sora, DiZ spoke to Naminé. "It seems that Riku did not get rid of you as I asked."
"R-Riku??" Sora was stunned, wondering how DiZ knew him. "Where's Riku?? How do you know him?" Sora demanded.
DiZ simply chuckled. "That is of--" He was cut off by someone else walking up behind him.
It was Axel!
"Well, well, well…this is quite interesting," Axel said. "So what are you planning to do, this time?"
"Axel…" Sora wasn't sure why he said that out loud, but I guessed he could have been influenced by my thoughts. What was Axel doing here?
"Hmph," DiZ, realizing that he was surrounded, began to step away. "I will leave you alone, for now…but I still have complete knowledge of what goes on in my Twilight Town." He disappeared, then, leaving the rest of us to talk.
"Tch," Axel glared at the area DiZ had just been standing in. Then he walked over to Sora and his friends. "Xemnas wanted you to come to Twilight Town. I guess you got the message, then."
"Yeah…" Sora nodded. "But why..?"
Axel shrugged. "I'm just following his orders," he murmured, staring at the ground. I wondered if he was telling the truth or not. "I'm supposed to take you to the real Twilight Town."
"The real one?" Goofy asked. "Whadd'ya mean?"
"This town is a fake," Axel sighed. "Created by DiZ."
"Well then, if this isn't the real thing, how do we get to Twilight Town?" Sora asked.
"Well…" Axel scratched his head.
"What about the Dark Corridors?" I asked, through Sora.
Axel seemed to realize it was me. "They're too dangerous…not all of you would be able to make it through," Axel said, shaking his head.
"Then how will we get there?"
Axel shrugged. "The best thing to do is to leave and try to come back later…" he hesitated before adding, "but do you really want to follow Xemnas's plans? This will give an excuse for delaying whatever Xemnas has planned…but I'm not sure for how long. You should leave, though."
"Leave??" Sora questioned. "But we just got here..!"
"I could force you through the Dark Corridors and into Xemnas's reach, if you want to do this the dangerous way," Axel sounded like he was getting irritated. "Or you could take the chance that I'm giving you. It's your choice." Axel crossed his arms and leaned against the wall, watching Sora.
Sora glanced at his friends. "Well…?"
"We should go," Naminé suggested. "In case DiZ comes back.."
"Right," Sora nodded. "Well, um…thanks, Axel."
Axel just shrugged. "I will always try to help my friends.." he paused for a moment. "Go, now, if you're going to."
"Okay," Sora turned to the others. "Let's go."
That was when the world started moving, again. Hayner, Pence, and Olette were still looking at Sora and his friends expectantly.
"Uh…" Sora didn't know what to say to them.
"Were you looking for something, or anything like that?" Pence asked.
Were they? "No," Sora shook his head. "Thanks."
I noticed Axel disappearing through a Dark Portal. It gave me some sort of…sadness. I wasn't sure why.
"I know you're Sora," Olette said, "but what are the rest of your names?"
"Oh," Sora forgot about introductions. "This is Donald, Goofy, and Naminé."
"It's nice to meet you," Olette smiled politely.
"Hey, do you guys have any plans for today?" Pence asked. "If you don't, then you could come with us. We're just watching Hayner practice for the Struggle battle."
'Struggle battle…?' I asked.
'I have no idea,' Sora responded. I noticed that Xion was still quiet. Was she okay?
"Actually, we do," Donald spoke up.
"Oh…" Pence looked a bit disappointed, but as usual, his cheery mood emerged again. "Hey, have we ever met before, Sora?"
"What? I don't think so…" Sora shook his head. "Why?"
"You just seem a bit familiar, that's all," Pence said.
"Oh." Sora had no idea why.
"Sora," Donald sounded impatient. "We need to get going."
"Yeah," Sora nodded. He turned to Pence and the others. "I might see you around, then," he said.
"Of course," Pence grinned. "We'll see you."
Sora and his friends started walking back toward the clocktower. "They seem pretty nice," Sora commented.
"But they were only copies of the real Hayner, Pence, and Olette," Naminé told him. "They were created by DiZ."
"What do you mean by that?"
"DiZ created a virtual Twilight Town of his own," Naminé said. "Somehow we made it here instead of to the real place."
"It's still a bit confusing, but okay," Sora shrugged. "Where are we supposed to go, now?"
"We might as well just get on the Gummi Ship and see what other worlds we can get to," Donald suggested.
"Yup, maybe we can find out more about Kingdom Hearts," Goofy agreed.
"Yeah. Let's go, then."
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After getting on the Gummi Ship, Sora was glad that they were able to escape the digital town.
Chip and Dale said that it wouldn't be until evening that we would make it to the next world, so Sora decided to take a nap. There wasn't much else to do, anyway.
"Xion, are you okay?" I asked, when the white returned. She seemed…as sad as she had been, before.
She looked at me for a moment before speaking. "I don't know," she shook her head. "It's just…I started to forget things again, earlier…until I heard your thoughts, I…"
"What were you forgetting?" I asked.
"I just…it felt like I was Sora, and not just watching what he sees, unlike before…" She sighed, then murmured, "like I really am losing myself…"
"If…if I talk to you more often, even when Sora is awake, would that help?" I asked. For some reason…I hated seeing her like this.
Xion nodded. "It might."
I hope it does, I thought.
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The world that we went to this time was some place called Traverse Town. I had seen parts of it before, in Sora's memories, but it was my first time going there.
"Gawrsh…it seems like this place hasn't changed a bit!" Goofy said.
"We haven't even looked around, yet!" Donald reminded.
Naminé giggled a little and looked at the town around her. "It's so calm here…a bit like Twilight Town," Naminé observed.
"Yeah.." Sora agreed.
"Hey, do you think Gepetto still lives here?" Goofy asked.
"Who knows?" Sora shrugged. "Let's go check!"
They walked toward where Gepetto and Pinocchio lived the last time they had been in Traverse Town. Sora knocked on the door, and a fairly old man with glasses opened the door.
"Sora!" he exclaimed, stepping back. "Come in, come in. It's been a long time since I've seen any of you."
"Yeah," Sora stepped inside first, leading the others in. "We've been a bit busy."
"Who's this new friend of yours?" he asked, gesturing to Naminé.
"My name is Naminé," she gave a small smile, introducing herself as they walked to the table in the middle of the room. At the table was a small boy with dark hair--Pinocchio.
"Pinocchio!" a voice that I had never heard exclaimed. A tiny person jumped from Goofy's shoulder and ran across the table to the boy.
'Who's that?' I asked Sora.
'That's Jiminy Cricket,' Sora explained. 'He's kept records of all of our travels.'
I remembered seeing Jiminy in a few of Sora's memories…but he hadn't appeared much since Sora woke up.
"Have you been a good boy?" Jiminy asked Pinocchio.
"Yes, I have," Pinocchio nodded enthusiastically. "I haven't told a lie, honest!"
At that, his nose started to grow a little. Pinocchio looked back and forth between his nose and Jiminy, and smiled nervously.
Jiminy shook his head. "Now, you know you're not supposed to tell lies, Pinocchio."
"I'm sorry," Pinocchio hung his head.
"So what are you kids up to?" Gepetto asked, setting a plate of sandwiches on the table in front of everyone.
"Not much," Sora took a bite of one of the sandwiches. "Just decided to visit Traverse Town."
"Do you four have a place to stay for the night?" he asked. "Because if you don't, you could stay here. It's not much, but I imagine it's better than sleeping outside."
"Oh, that would be great!" Sora nodded. "Thank you."
"Any time," Gepetto said. He turned away from the table and started to work on something on the other side of the room.
"Do you think we could go look around a bit?" Naminé asked. "I think this town looks…really nice."
"Sure," Sora smiled. "We can go for a walk after dinner. Donald, Goofy, do you want to come?"
"Yup," Goofy nodded. "Of course!" Donald just mumbled something incoherent that I couldn't hear at all.
"Okay," Sora grinned. "So where will we go?"
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They ended up going to the Second District of Traverse Town, first.
"Wow," Naminé marveled at the scenery. "It's so beautiful.."
They were walking along the wall of shops toward the Gizmo Shop when suddenly something teleported in front of them.
Or some one.
It was Xigbar!
"Well, what are four kids like you doing out here at night?" Xigbar questioned, grinning.
"We're not kids!" Donald argued loudly, even jumping up.
"As if," Xigbar laughed. "To us Organization members? You're all vulnerable children."
"Shut up!" Sora said.
Xigbar looked toward Sora. "The Keyblade wielder…" he mused. "You're so much like Roxas.."
"That's not true!" Sora denied. "We're different! We--"
Xigbar chuckled. "On the contrary, you two are much alike. In fact, I get the same feeling talking to you that I do with Roxas."
"Feeling??" Donald exclaimed. "Nobodies can't feel!"
"That's what everybody says," Xigbar nodded. "So you tell me, what else do I call this?"
Donald was speechless. He couldn't think of anything. And I couldn't, either.
Xigbar…he was one of the few Organization members that I often felt like I could trust. He could see through lies…but unlike Saïx, he didn't seem to be a jerk about it.
"I told you," Xigbar smirked. "And now what I was sent here for…" Xigbar flicked something at Sora and he caught it, quickly. It was an envelope.
"See if you can recognize it," Xigbar said. "Xemnas said that 'Roxas will know what it means.' As if, but those were my orders…see ya, kid!" With that, Xigbar disappeared through a Dark Corridor.
"What did he mean by that..?" Sora wondered.
"Why don't ya open the envelope?" Goofy asked.
"Okay," Sora nodded. He opened it up and inside was an ice cream stick with the word 'WINNER' on it.
'Axel!' Xion and I both thought at the same time.
'What does this…is Axel in trouble??' I was becoming a bit…scared?
"Oh, it's just some stinkin' trash," Donald complained. He was about to snatch it away, but I took over Sora and held it out of Donald's reach.
"No!" I said. "This is something that I…I mean, Roxas gave to Axel. But why do we have it, now..?" I relinquished control of Sora so that he could respond to whatever anyone would say next. I didn't like controlling his body…but I couldn't have let Donald do anything to the envelope.
It was like a container of memories that I had from the Organization.
"Is there anything else in that?" Goofy asked.
Sora shrugged and opened the envelope, again. "There's…some note in here."
"Well, read it!" Donald said impatiently.
"It says…" Sora pulled the note out and unfolded it. "'We may have found a traitor. Keep an eye on him, Saïx.' And it has some kind of symbol here…"
'That's the Organization's symbol,' I recognized. 'Saïx…it must be a note from Xemnas!'
"A note from Xemnas…for Saïx…? But why…?" Sora didn't understand why Xemnas wanted him to see a note written for Saïx.
"Maybe it's not really meant for him," Naminé suggested. "Maybe…it's a trap?"
"But what are we supposed to do with it??" Sora put the contents of the envelope back and stuck it in his pocket. "Axel isn't really a friend of mine, or anything…"
"He's a friend of Roxas and Xion," Naminé reminded.
"So what, are we supposed to try to help Axel or something? It only suggests that he's a traitor."
"It's not that simple.." Naminé shook her head.
"'Traitors are eliminated'," I said, through Sora. I wasn't sure where I had heard that before, if I had even heard it anywhere, but those words came to mind.
"You can't turn on the Organization! You get on their bad side, and they'll destroy you!" His words played through my mind. 'Axel..'
"So Axel's in trouble?" Sora asked.
"It seems like that's what Xemnas wants us to think.." Naminé sighed. "Let's head back to Gepetto's house. We can think about this more in the morning."
"Yeah," Sora nodded, agreeing. "Let's go."
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Later that night, when Sora slept, Xion and I talked about the note more.
"What do you think it means?" Xion asked. I could see fear in her eyes…was she as scared as I thought I felt?
"I don't know," I sighed. "I hope Axel is okay…"
Xion was quiet for a moment. "So…you left that for him when you left the Organization?"
"Yeah…" I nodded. "But how do you--"
"When I dream," Xion explained, "sometimes some of your memories come to me. It's like they all mix together, now that we're in Sora's mind…I'm not sure why. But the memory of that…it was only earlier today that I found out about it."
"Weird…" I wondered how things could happen like this. "Do you think that we're supposed to go help him?"
Xion shrugged. "I have no idea." She smiled slightly. "But wouldn't that be an interesting change? Us saving him, rather than him helping us out. I think he can take care of himself okay."
That made me smile, too. "Yeah." I hope.
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((In addition to this fairly long chapter, to make up for the very long delay of this, you get TWO bonus sections--the conversations with Axel and Xigbar, each from their point of view. I know last time there were three bonus, but I think this is longer. Enjoy!))
•Axel•
I happened to get another 'icky job,' soon. Apparently Xemnas had wanted Sora and his friends to come to Twilight Town…but they ended up in some digital town that DiZ had made.
Saïx was going to try to get me there through some kind of machine. He didn't know whether it would work or not, but said there wasn't enough time to check.
"Do you really want to do this?" he asked, his hand hovering over one of the keys on the computer.
"It's not like I get a choice," I responded. "But I think…I actually do." I wanted to see Roxas and Xion again, even if it was only through Sora that I could meet them.
Saïx typed a few more equations into the computer. "Tell me when you're ready."
"I'm always ready," I teased, grinning. My eyes may have been fooling me, but I thought Saïx almost smiled.
"Report back when you're done." He pressed one of the keys and I was immediately teleported into Twilight Town.
Digital Twilight Town, I corrected myself. But it looked exactly the same. I saw some man dressed in red up ahead of me, and across from him…Sora and his friends.
I walked up closer. It really was them!
"Well, well, well…this is quite interesting," I said. Many things. The town, the fact that they were all there… I remembered the man from Castle Oblivion. DiZ, wasn't it? "So what
are you planning to do, this time?"
"Axel…" I heard Sora say. No, was it Roxas? It was close to impossible to tell, but…
"Hmph," DiZ took a step back, turning slightly so that he could see me. "I will leave you alone, for now…but I still have complete knowledge of what goes on in my Twilight Town."
He disappeared in a flurry of numbers, or something.
"Tch," I resisted the urge to break something. Walking toward Sora and his friends I said, "Xemnas wanted you to come to Twilight Town. I guess you got the message, then."
"Yeah…" Sora replied. "But why..?"
"I'm just following his orders," I shrugged, and stared at the ground. "I'm supposed to take you to the real Twilight Town."
"The real one?" One of Sora's friends asked, the taller one. "Whadd'ya mean?"
A sigh escaped my lips. Why was I the one who got stuck with this job? "This town is a fake," I explained. "Created by DiZ."
"Well then, if this isn't the real thing, how do we get to Twilight Town?" Sora demanded. It reminded me of Roxas, that last day..
"Well…" I scratched my head, unsure. Xemnas hadn't actually covered that.
"What about the Dark Corridors?" It was Sora's voice, but I immediately thought of Roxas.
"They're too dangerous…not all of you would be able to make it through," I shook my head. The only ones I actually cared about there were Roxas and Xion.
"Then how will we get there?" it was definitely Sora, this time.
I shrugged. Was I supposed to know everything? "The best thing to do is to leave and try to come back later…" I paused. Should I keep them safe, even if it betrays Xemnas's
orders a bit..? "But do you really want to follow Xemnas's plans? This will give an excuse for delaying whatever Xemnas has planned…but I'm not sure for how long. You should leave, though."
"Leave??" Sora seemed surprised at the suggestion. "But we just got here..!"
"I could force you through the Dark Corridors and into Xemnas's reach, if you want to do this the dangerous way," I would never do that. But Sora was being so stubborn.. "Or you could take the chance that I'm giving you. It's your choice." I crossed my arms, leaning against the wall behind me and watched Sora for a reaction.
Sora looked at his friends. "Well…?"
"We should go," Naminé spoke up. "In case DiZ comes back.."
"Right," Sora nodded. "Well, um…thanks, Axel."
I shrugged again. "I will always try to help my friends.." Roxas and Xion. "Go, now, if you're going to."
"Okay," Sora turned back to his friends. "Let's go."
Then Digital Twilight Town left its frozen state. I watched as Sora and his friends, and some of the Twilight Town civilians, conversed for a while before deciding that I wasn't going to get anything else done. I turned and opened up a Dark Corridor, going back to the Castle That Never Was.
"You failed?" Saïx asked.
"I'd like to see you try to do that," I retorted sarcastically. I left the computer room and headed up to my own, exhausted. I didn't want to deal with anyone.
When I got there I immediately looked for the envelope Roxas had left on his last day in the Organization. I wasn't sure why, but…I wanted to see it.
I was shocked when I realized what had happened. It's gone… I had looked in every place in the room and couldn't find it. But where..? Where would it be?
I sat down on my bed and stared at Kingdom Hearts. "You are the one that causes all this trouble, aren't you?" I glared at the giant moon-like heart. It was useless, but I had something to blame.
The envelope was gone. It was one of the last things I had to remind me of my only two friends of the Organization..
The ones that were now gone.
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•Xigbar•
A second mission for that day. Go to Traverse Town and deliver this envelope to Sora.
I was told not to look inside, but when ordered something like that, who wouldn't?
It was only an icecream stick and some piece of paper that I didn't bother reading. I knew that Axel, Roxas, and Xion had met on the clock tower for ice cream often--that was no secret. But still, what would this be important for?
I still followed orders, though. I waited on the rooftops of some of the Second District buildings. When I finally saw the kids, I teleported down in front of them.
"Well, what are four kids like you doing out here at night?" I asked them, grinning.
"We're not kids!" One of Sora's friends jumped up, yelling.
That made me laugh. "As if. To us Organization members? You're all vulnerable children."
"Shut up!" Sora yelled. He seemed so much like Roxas…immature, but…I didn't want to scold him about it too much.
I turned toward him. "The Keyblade wielder…" I said out loud."You're so much like Roxas.."
"That's not true!" Sora immediately shook his head. "We're different! We--"
I couldn't help but laugh a little bit. "On the contrary, you two are much alike. In fact, I get the same feeling talking to you that I do with Roxas."
"Feeling??" his short friend asked, again. "Nobodies can't feel!" As if. Whenever I looked at Roxas, or now at Sora, I felt the need to…defend him.
"That's what everybody says," I nodded, agreeing about that. "So you tell me," I challenged. "What else do I call this?"
He said nothing.
"I told you," I smirked. "And now what I was sent here for…" I pulled the envelope out of my pocket and flicked it at the kid.
"See if you can recognize it," I told him. "Xemnas said that 'Roxas will know what it means.' As if, but those were my orders…see ya, kid!" I then summoned a Dark Portal around me and returned to the Castle. My work was done.
But what was it done for?
((I just realized that Roxas said he'd talk to Xion more but he didn't, yet, in this chapter...he will next time though xP.
I hope you liked this! It was like, 10 pages on the word processor XD))