"Damn Dem, you could have told me this place was enormous!" Axel and Demyx had been in The Nox Noctis for atleast an hour and they still hadn't found anyone.
"Well it's not my fault!" Demyx crowed. "I told them to hang out at the bar, it's not my fault if they decide to go wander around!" Demyx tried peeking over the heads of the dancers, but nothing stood out to him.
"Damn it. Why did you even invite them?" Axel growled, running a hand through his red locks. The body heat and thrum of rhythm from the mounds of dancers around him had started out fine and all, but when he started getting frustrated the constant pounding was starting to get annoying.
"Hey, Saix said they'd try to find us. Larxene and Marly are the ones who would have run off. I'm not quite sure about Luxord though . . ."
"Did you invite dumbass?" Axel barked at the blonde as he shoved some girl off himself. She smelt like she was already wasted. Man, kids these days.
"Xemnas? Yeah, why?"
"Well there you go. You know Saix follows that guy around like a lost puppy!" Axel scratched at the back of his neck, the heat getting to him. "Come on, let's check the upper floors. I heard there's supposed to be some big party and if there's booze Larxene and Luxord will have swarmed the bar like flies." Axel looked over to his friend smirking at some brunet. "Come on moron." The red head huffed angrily and rolled his eyes as he dragged the blonde away from the brunet and stalked his way over to the stairs and started his angry romp to the upper floors.
Roxas had been dragged through the enormous crowd and forced to dance with Sora for a bit, which was really awkward on his part as he didn't quite enjoy dancing all of a sudden. But he was saved however when Riku came over and 'stole' Sora away. He gratefully receded to one of the tables that had been shoved away to the sides where Zexion sat and Tidus tried to catch the eye of some blonde.
"Watch out Tidus, I think that one's a guy." Roxas said, a smirk painted on his face.
"What! How'd you know that?" Tidus quickly broke eye contact with the definetly female blonde and stared at Roxas with disbelief.
"I was just joking! Don't worry Tidus, I'm sure she's completely female!" Roxas backtracked suddenly trying to ensure the other blonde that his instincts had been correct. "Hey Tidus! I'm serious! I didn't mean anything by it."
"Naw, it's okay Roxy," Tidus sighed, sitting down next to Zexion with a despondent look on his face. "She wasn't really my type anyway." The blonde sighed again and looked downtrodden as he looked out on the dance floor. "You wanna come and get a drink with me Roxas?"
"Huh? Uh will you cheer up if I do?"
"Sure, come on, my treat." Roxas and Tidus made their way through the jumping, bumping, and occasionally humping crowd towards the bar in the center of the room. The neon lights were the same on this bar as the last, but the bartenders were a couple of rough looking dudes. One had a scar running down his eye while he wore an eyepatch on the other, whereas the other one was this really hulking dude. The guy stood atleast a full head over everyone and had wavy brown hair.
"Whaddya want kid? We don't serve unless you're legal." The eyepatch guy barked at the two of them sending a slight shiver running down Roxas' neck.
"We are legal patchy!" Tidus squawked, looking like a baby chocobo rather than a fake twenty-one year old.
"Heh, sure you are kid, and I'm the pretty princess of Rock City. Not legal, no service." The eyepatch started to turn away, but Roxas called out to him.
"Two waters then." He fished around in his pockets for his wallet, pulled out what money he had, and gave the eyepatch the money.
"All right kid. Hey Lex, two waters. Bottled or tap?" The bartender looked down at Roxas and Tidus hardly waiting for an answer.
"Bottled." Roxas replied quickly.
"Bottled!" The giant reached under the counter and pulled up two bottled waters and tossed them to the cyclops. "Here ya go kiddies." He grinned at the two blondes, the taller of which stuck his tongue out at him while the shorter just skittered away back into the frenzy of the dance floor.
As Tidus and Roxas reached the table a tall blonde woman fell onto Tidus laughing hysterically as an older blonde guy reached over for her.
"Ha ha ha ha! *hic* Luxxy! Get down from there!" The lady hiccuped as she reached for the older guy who was laughing along with her.
"Come on pet, let's go find those idiots we were s'possed to find." The guy grabbed the drunk lady from Tidus, but he didn't sound much better than she did.
"Um, sir, are you okay?" Tidus asked as Roxas wished the guy wasn't such a softy. The two drunks looked over at the two of them and the lady began to coo warbley.
"Oooh, look Luxxy, isn't that one cute? Can I keep him?" The blonde was pointing at Roxas with a vicious looking pink nail. The older guy looked dazed as he saw Roxas for the first time and he seemed to struggle for words.
"Hmm, don't think so pet, he's scared *hic* stiff of you." Luxxy heaved the blonde woman up a bit more as she crowed on about how she wished she had a puppy that looked like 'that cute little whelp', but Roxas grabbed Tidus' arm before he heard any more about it. The two of them rushed through the crowds of people back to where they thought Zexion would be sitting off to the side.
"Hey! Roxas! Chill man!" Tidus tried calling to the blonde, but the pressure from everyone was starting to get to him. All the body heat pressed in against him and seemed to clench his chest as sweat started to drip down the nape of his neck. He rushed through the rest of the mob and finally made it over to the side and took a breath as he looked for Zexion and their table. As soon as he found the blue haired teen he noticed something was different about him. The guy was smiling.
"Well would you look at that?" Tidus muttered as he looked where Roxas was staring. "Come on dude, let's go find out what's making Zexy smile." The clamorous blonde strode over to where his friend was sitting and nodded to Roxas knowingly, though for what reason Roxas was unsure.
The blue's smile wasn't anything like Tidus', vibrant and bright, but rather a small, tiny smile that was more than Roxas had seen from him the whole day.
"Hey Zexy!" Tidus called over to the table as the two blondes scooted into the chairs across from Zexion.
"Hey." The guy muttered, looking calmly at the two of them.
"So, you going to tell us who you met?" Tidus grinned at Zexion as his tiny smile became a little grin and Roxas swore there was a very minute blush spreading on his cheeks. However, from the guy's voice you couldn't tell he was happy in the slightest.
"Um. No one, just a guy. He offered to buy me a drink and said he'd be back real quick."
"Oh really," Tidus crooned, his wide smile growing even wider. They didn't carry their conversation on much longer as Sora and Riku stumbled over, laughing together loudly.
"Ooh boy, I'm tired." Sora grinned over at the three teens sitting around the table, but he didn't make a move to sit down. Instead he and Riku stood near the front of the table and wrapped an arm around each other's waist.
"Right, sure you are Sora." Riku sighed, grinning cat-like at his boyfriend's sweaty face. "I was the one who asked if we could stop a moment." Riku kissed Sora right on the mouth just before the brunet could reply. Tidus cat-called to them as they stayed like that for a couple more moments before breaking apart.
"Come on guys, we're all single here, no need to gloat!" Tidus laughed for a moment before going on. "Well, at least me and Roxy here are. Someone actually came over to talk to Zexion!" Sora smiled over at the blue-haired teen who looked away shyly with his one eye as Riku asked who the lucky guy was.
"His name's Demyx." The blunet muttered, a small smile playing with his lips again. "He went to go get me a drink."
"Oh ho! Sounds nice, what's he look like?" Riku played, pulling Sora closer.
"Uh, he's blonde, but dirtier than Roxas' hair and he has teal eyes. He's a little taller than you Riku." The blunet paused a moment. "He's right over there. See him?" Zexion pointed into the mass of people that were jostling one another as they danced. For a moment the four guys didn't see anyone coming over with drinks in their hands, but finally a guy came into view. He was like Zexion had described.
"Here you go Zexion." The blonde smiled down at Zexion and then up at the four others. "Nice to meet you, I'm Demyx Brooks. Oh, and here's a couple of my pals." Demyx pointed to his left, back into the thralls of the mob and they saw a group of people heading over. Roxas noticed that the two drunkards from before were swaying together and were only held up from the support of a pink haired stranger that looked familiar. He also saw another blue haired guy that walked beside a tan, gray haired man, but when he looked at the next person his heart immediately raced and his mind told his body to move. Fast. Because the person he saw next had flaming red hair that was messily arranged in spikes all over his head. Axel Egan was walking toward his table and Roxas Strife was running away as fast as he could.
"Hey! Rox! Where are you going?" Sora called after his cousin. Axel looked up from his scowl and watched the short blonde race away through the crowd right next to him. For a moment he wondered what he should do, but when he saw the blonde's vibrant blue eyes look directly at his own green eyes he knew it was his fault. And if it was his fault then he wanted, for some weird reason, to make it up to the racing blonde. So he turned right around and followed after the boy.