Chapter 43: Capture

I went to Castle Oblivion with Axel to find Xion, but I don't remember anything about it. Axel said I collapsed as soon as I got there. I woke up in Twilight Town and incredibly enough Xion was there, but she wasn't alone, there was another guy with her, and he was wearing the Organization coat. I could tell by his build that he wasn't one of us, though. Who is he?

Roxas was walking through the halls of the Organization, his mind was as almost always busy thinking about Xion. Why did she ran off him? Who was the guy who was with her? This and many other questions were on the boy's head. With a sigh and trying not to think about the girl at least for a few moments he kept walking, however destiny never seemed to listen him.

As he walked through the halls, he caught Saix and Axel in a somehow heat conversation. Axel seemed annoyed by some orders Saix gave him or something like that…

-You're ordering me to what!? –Axel said angrily

-Tell me what choice is left, now that Xion has had contact with the man in the black coat. –Saix replied as simple as always, he then looked how Roxas was staring at them from the corner of his eye and left. Axel also stared at him for a few seconds and then left in the same direction as Saix not feeling ready to tell Roxas about his new orders.

Roxas stared how his friend was going away and started thinking over in Saix words, the blonde guy sigh starting to understand how bad things were getting for Xion. Trying to convince himself all of these weren't happening he started running to the Grey Area were Saix probably was.

Just as he thought, Saix was there giving all the other members their respective missions. Axel also was on his side, which resulted perfect for Roxas. As soon as the pyro noticed the look on the blonde's eyes he sighed knowing things were going to get even worse now.

-Xion has betrayed us. –Saix said once Roxas was near to him. Roxas confirming his fears couldn't help but to glare at Saix while still having a confused look on his face.

-No! She hasn't betrayed us!

-You saw the creature consorting with the impostor. What more evidence do we need?

-That's not evidence! Who knows why she was with him? –Roxas said angrily again. He then stared at Axel so that he could help him convince Saix, but the pyro just didn't found the correct words and decided to remain silent.

-I think we all know, and just you don't want to accept it. –Saix said noticing Axel wasn't defending Xion either. Somehow, Saix words hurt Roxas. Deep inside him, he knew Saix words made sense, but he knew Xion very well and he knew she would never do such a thing like betraying them.

-He might be forcing her. –Roxas said after a short silence. Incredible for him, Saix drew a smile on his lips that made him angry

-Ha! Spare me you and your repulsive displays of would-be sentimental.

-It's not a display! Why is such a crime to give each other the benefit of the doubt? –Roxas said angrily, Axel placed a hand on his shoulder trying to make him relax a little

-Roxas, enough…

-The impostor has resurfaced in Twilight Town. Go and destroy him, Roxas. Like I expected you to do yesterday. Axel, you bring Xion back. Gagged and tied up, for all I care. –Saix ordered, Axel nodded even though he didn't like the orders and the way they were given

-Yes, sir.

-If that proves too troublesome, then you are authorized to adopt a more permanent solution. –Saix added making them both gasp, Roxas especially.

-WHAT!? Saix, NO!

-Get going. –Saix said opening a dark corridor for him.

-Well, this is pretty icky, huh? –Axel said as he stepped with Roxas through the dark corridor.

-You're not going to actually follow those orders, right? –Roxas said as they walked through the dark corridor. The red haired sighed and smiled at Roxas.

-Relax. I'll think of something clever once I find her. You just worry about yourself, huh? That guy in the coat didn't look like the type to go down without a fight. –Axel advised making Roxas smile for once that day.

-I know. –he said as he stepped out of the dark corridor and into Twilight Town.

Once there, Roxas and Axel separated so that each could fulfill their respective missions. Roxas was not sure about what Axel would do if he found Xion, but he couldn't do anything to stop him so each took their own ways.

With his hood on, as always when the Organization did missions on towns like Twilight Town, Roxas started searching for the impostor through all the town, but he couldn't find anything but Heartless on some hidden places. While he walked among people, he remembered the tactics Vexen taught him when he first got into the Organization and decided to start searching from higher places.

Once he was on the roofs of the buildings, he started searching again everywhere for the impostor. While he was on the roofs, he found a lot of different things, which included some weird guy eating food from the floor but nothing about the impostor. With a sigh, Roxas decided to sit on a roof for some rest.

-This is ridiculous. It's obvious the impostor is not here. I wonder if Axel had luck with Xion. –Roxas wondered aloud as he stared how people passed by through the streets.

As he continued slacking off, he suddenly listened to a melodious feminine voice coming from one of the alleys of the town. Roxas recognizing the voice started looking down searching and found how a hooded figure walked happily was singing.

-Na Na Naaaa, Hey Jude. –the girl sang unaware of Roxas who was staring at her with a big smile on his lips

-The Beatles, huh? That's definitely you, Xion! –Roxas said getting on his feet and jumping down on the girl's direction

-And I said: Na Na Naaaaaaa… -the girl continued singing louder, but stopped when Roxas fell from the sky and landed in front of her. Both of them stared at each other eyes, not knowing exactly how to act, or what to say. Roxas smiled as he approached the girl.

-Xion… -Roxas whispered, but when he was about to reach the girl she started running making the boy gasp in surprise, but he reacted fast and started chasing her.

-Why Roxas? Why can't you leave me alone? –the girl whispered to herself as she dodged people while Roxas was still on her tail. The girl decided to run through people so that she could loose the blonde kid's easier.

-Come here, Xion! I'm not going to loose you again! –the boy shouted still chasing her. After a few minutes of chasing, the girl managed to loose Roxas hiding through people. The boy got irritated as he looked what direction Xion took for escaping.

-I'm sorry, Roxas… -the girl said softly as she got away slowly, but…

-Xion? Is that you? –a girl's voice asked aloud making Xion turn around at the girl which resulted to be Izumi. Roxas listened to the little girl's voice and turned to stare at Xion which was trying to escape.

-Damn it! –the girl said starting to run this time being chased by both Izumi and Roxas. While running, the girl tried to open a dark corridor so that she could escape easier, but it was useless to do it while running, she didn't had enough practice for it.

-Roxas, is that really Xion? –Izumi asked while running beside Roxas

-Yep. I haven't seen her face, but I'm sure that's her.

-Then why is she running away from us?

-I'll ask you when I know.

Xion used her wind magic so that she could jump higher and land on a floor. She sighed relieved once on a roof as he stared down the surprised faces of Roxas and Izumi, but then the surprised was her as Roxas used the same trick and landed in the same roof as her.

The girl started running again jumping from roof to roof trying to escape from Roxas which was easily getting close to her. Xion continued with her sight on the way wondering: When did Roxas got so fast? Or when did Roxas learned to use magic so well as her?

Jumping down to the floor again, Xion started using people to cover herself from Roxas. Not knowing exactly how, the girl managed to loose Roxas again through people and this time she acted fast and got into a dead end where she was sure he was not going to find her. The girl sighed relieved as she recovered her breath.

-Xion… -she listened Roxas voice from behind her. The girl sighed in defeat and turned around taking off her hood revealing her face. Roxas smiled when he saw her face, it had been a long time since he last saw her.

-Roxas…

-Where have you been? Axel and I have been looking everywhere for you. –Roxas said getting near to her.

-You have? Sorry.

-Let's go home. If you come back voluntarily, Saix will let all this drop. He has to. I don't care what he said to you, I'll be there. Me and Axel will make sure… -Roxas stopped as Xion steeped back to get away from him when he offered his hand to her making him gasp in surprise.

-I really can't.

-Why not? Come on…-Roxas said starting to get frustrated by all the trouble. Xion stared at him for a few seconds and then tried to get away from her, but before she did Roxas grabbed her hand.

Both teenagers stared at their eyes for a few seconds without saying a word or emitting a sound, until Xion took away her sight from Roxas. The girl took a deep breath and summoned her Keyblade with her free hand to Roxas surprise, and not just that, she used it to point at Roxas making him release the grip from her hand.

Xion kept aiming at Roxas with Keyblade as Roxas stared at her in disbelief, until a chakram which she barely deflected went flying towards her. Both teens stared surprised at the direction where the chakram went flying and observed how Axel was walking to them calmly.

-Well hello there, Xion. –he greeted raising his hand

-Axel? –Roxas said in disbelief as Xion charged against him.

Axel summoned again his chakrams so that he could deflect Xion attacks. She tried to hit him with her Keyblade but he deflected all of her blows easily. She took her distance from him to recover her breath, Axel used this opportunity to attack and started throwing his chakrams at her. Xion had to jump to dodge the first one and then had to use her Keyblade de deflect the second chakram.

Xion knowing Axel didn't had a weapon to protect himself used this opportunity to attack, but Axel created a shield of fire and then started attacking the girl with small but fast little fire balls which the girl barely dodged.

Roxas couldn't do anything but to watch how his friends were trying to kill each other. After some minutes of fighting, he couldn't stand it anymore and exploded

-STOP! –Roxas shouted, Xion turned around to stare at him and Axel used this chance to hit her on the back of her head and leave her unconscious

Axel grabbed the girl by her hood before she fell to the floor. Axel's action made Roxas gasp, and he started running towards them. Axel stared at him with a face mixed with disappointed and shame, and disappeared on a dark corridor with Xion.

Roxas gritted his teeth and was about to open a dark corridor and follow his friends when he remembered he hadn't finished his mission yet. With a sigh he decided to search for the impostor once more and go back to the Castle once he finished.

Just as he expected, the impostor wasn't at Twilight Town anymore, no matter how hard he searched for him, he simply wasn't there. Deciding he already had enough of trouble searching for him, he decided to go back to Twilight Town and search for Xion. Just as he appeared on the Grey Area, he saw Axel who was about to leave the room and stopped him.

-Axel!

-Oh, hey Roxas? Had any luck with your mission? –Axel greeted him like if anything had happened making Roxas even angrier with him, but decided to let that one pass and ask for what it was important for him.

-Where is she?

-She's safe resting on her room. Lord Xemnas doesn't want anyone to visit her, so, sorry for you. –Axel explained shrugging. Roxas nodded slowly and glared at the pyro

-How could you do that to her? I mean, you didn't have to use force.

-Didn't I? –Axel said, pretending to be confused. Roxas shook his head

-No…of course not! We're supposed to be best friends.

-This isn't about friendship, now if that's all, I gotta go. –Axel said walking away from Roxas. The boy stared how his "friend" was leaving like if he didn't cared for Xion at all.

-If that's all? –he repeated his words


That's all, now I know I've said this a lot of times by now, but this time is for real: From now on, the story is going to be completely different from the game. So expect lots of changes and surprises.

By the way, since I'm already out of school (HOOORAAAAYYY), I'm going to update twice a week, maybe every monday and friday (except this monday) so stay tuned up xD

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