5th Day
Up at the clock tower sat Roxas alone, waiting for someone. He turned his head around as a voice remarked "You´re early" it was his best friend Axel.
"No, you´re just late" gave the blond back and the red haired walked past him, Axel sat down with a smile.
They sat in silence and ate their ice cream, then Roxas said a little dull while he looked down at his ice cream "Today makes 255"
"What´s that about?" asked Axel who already have eating his ice cream.
"It´s been that many days since I first joined the Organization" told Roxas his friend "Man, time flies."
Axel took his ice cream stick out and pointed it at Roxas "So, you got the number memorized do ya?"
it made Roxas smile "Yeah." Then the smile faded "Have to hang onto something, right? It´s not like I have memories from before the Organization" he looked down at his ice cream "Don´t you remember?" he asked Axel "I acted like a zombie"
Axel sat a hand on Roxas shoulder, but didn´t look at the blond "Right, that first week you could barely form a sentence." Axel told very seriously which was pretty rare. Roxas lowered his head sad, and then Axel suddenly slapped his back "But come one!" Almost scared Roxas to death with that move "You´re still kind of a zombie" laughed Axel as he clapped Roxas shoulder and the blond stuck out after him "Oh thanks!"
Axel grinned and Roxas chuckled with him.
"Hey, Roxas. Bet you don´t know why the sun sets red." Roxas looked confused at him before he turned to the setting sun "You see; light is made up of lots of colors. And out of all those colors, red is the one that travels the farthest."
Roxas couldn´t help but to give his friend an elbow "Like I asked! Know-it-all"
Axel laughed pointed teasing at himself and made both laugh out loud for a long time.
They sat again in silence, but then turned Roxas towards the entrance to the tower and wondered out loud "Seriously, where is she?"
He never saw the serious look in the red haired eyes.
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He found at last Xion in the Twilight Town, he wanted her to come back with them. if she did then Saïx was forced to let anything he had said drop and life he knew it would return as it were "Me and Axel will me sure-" he took his hand out to her but to his surprise took Xion a step back and he stopped talking.
Xion turned sad hers head away "I really can´t"
"Why not?" asked Roxas confused "Come on…" he tried grab her but Xion took another step back to point out she wasn´t going with him freely. For a moment stood Xion unsure what she have to do, then by a single sad look to him; she ran. Roxas called hers name and grab hers hand.
She stopped.
Roxas thought for a second she would finally come to senses and go back with him, sadly not… he gasped and let go off her as Xion pointed hers keyblade at him, she was ready to fight in order to leave. Suddenly she turned around and blocked with hers keyblade against a spinning object, it landed on the ground and showed itself as Axel chakram: Eternal Flames. The chakram faded in darkness and fire and out from a corner arrived Axel "Well, hello there…" he greeted cocky, and then his voice turned more treating "Xion"
"Axel?" asked Roxas confused, but it turned to fear when Xion suddenly attacked Axel "No, wait!"
Xion didn´t listen and tried hit Axels head.
The older Nobody must have predicted hers attack, for he ducked down and called his own weapons in fire and the fight was on, between two good friends there now fought as enemies, and Roxas stood in between and didn´t know what to do.
Xion ran towards Axel who grabbed his chakrams and was again ready to throw them.
"Stop!" cried Roxas and that outburst made Xion hesitated and Axel knocked her out. She felt and Axel grabbed her before she landed on the ground, Roxas ran towards them, muttered Xions name.
Axel took the girl on his shoulder looked a single time at Roxas with eyes there seems to show the emotions regret; before he teleported away. Leaving Roxas on his own…
"Your mind´s made up?" asked Axel in the dark city just as Roxas walked past him. Roxas had planning on leaving the Organization and everybody else behind. Roxas stopped and asked like he did in the castle "Why did the keyblade chose me?" he couldn´t trust Axel anymore. He has lied to him for who knows how long? Axel felt nothing, he understood nothing what Roxas and Xion is going through"I have to know."
Axel before so calm expression turned into anger "You can´t turn on the Organization!" he shouted at Roxas "You get on their bad side and they destroy you!"
Roxas turned only halfway back to his former friend "No one would miss me" every member was a Nobody. Meaning no feelings and therefore; if he dies, those who knew him would not miss him. Not even Axel.
He leaved the slightly stunned Axel who said loud "That´s not true. I would…" back then Roxas never heard those last words; maybe they would have done a different, maybe not. Now in the dream of a Nobody´s memories, he heard them and he knew how much Axel have changes just being close to Soras Nobody.
He stood against an older boy with silver hair, he had won the fight and yet… the older boy, Riku shouted asking "Why? Why do you have the keyblade?"
Roxas took his keyblade up; watched it few seconds before saying angry "Shut up!" and he attacked but Riku knocked him down and Roxas passed out few seconds. Just as Riku thought he have won, Roxas rose and attacked once again.
Riku shot a dark ball after the blond but Roxas cut the darkness in half and tried do the same to the darkness owner; he was not so lucky.
Riku landed long away from Roxas there shouted "Why don´t you quit?"
The silver haired boy smirked and asked cocky "Come on, Sora." He pointed at Roxas "I thought you were stronger than that." Roxas first seems surprised and was about to reply back, but then the memories shattered as that part belonged to Sora and instead he saw Terra make the same remark as Riku did. The scene returned as Riku said "You really are his Nobody. Guess Diz was right after all"
Roxas was confused and that made him angry "What are you talking about?" he called the second keyblade "I am me! Nobody else!" he attacked but suddenly the whole scene went in slow motion. Roxas stopped surprised as Riku faded. He looked confused around, another person arrives behind him and Roxas turned to the hooded. The hooded took the hood down and revealed to be Xion, she smiled sweet to him "Never forget. That´s the truth"
Roxas dismissed his keyblades and nodded as the light surrounded them both "Yeah, I know"
Ventus opened his eyes and sat up with a slightly headache, the memories was where they belonged, still he felt a little sad about Xions fate. He watched the town few seconds and then he remembered "Oh! It´s today we hit the beach!" he exclaimed happy and was out from bed.
Ventus ran fast as he could towards the usual spots but his friends were already outside and waved to Ventus as he came closer.
"Ready?" asked Olette.
Ventus nodded and by Hayner on the lead, they ran up to the train station.
xXx
Like it was still a dream, sat the friends on the train to the beach. Roxas never got the changes, now it was Ventus turn to do it for him, maybe it was why he got the Nobody memories.
Olette took hers orb up from hers pocket and held it up, closely followed by Pence and Hayner. Ventus smiled took his up as well, only a second feared he had lost it. All four of them watched inside the orbs as the train approached the beach.
"Finally!" yelled Hayner when the train stopped, he ran outside as the door opened and grinned to his friends "Last one is a rotten melon!" Ventus jumped off the seats and followed Hayner with Olette and Pence closely behind.
Ventus stopped when he saw the beach, it was fantastic! Pence and Olette told him to hurry as they ran past him. Ventus walked after them and tried absorb every single detail, he stopped at the water where the gang already ran around and tried get Hayner out in the water. Ventus watched the sea water and couldn´t help thinking at this place was a little similar to Destiny Islands. He looked down and saw a seashell; he took it up and watched it in his hands. It looked like those Xion loved to gather.
"Excuse me, could I get that seashell?"
Ventus froze, that voice… he turned around and right in front of him stood… Xion. The raven hair girl eyes wide just as big as his and asked "Roxas?"
"Xion" he said quietly, they stood in few second of what felt as years before they both yelled each other's name and Ventus hugged Xion "You´re alive!"
Xion laughed and he let go off her "How?" he asked confused and remember how Roxas watched her die, was she like a Nobody? No a replica didn´t have anything to return back to.
Xion smiled weakly "I´m not sure, not all my memories have returned. Maybe Marku-"
"Was he a Replica too?" asked Ventus surprised, he gave her the seashell and they walked over the beach. Hayner and the gang saw it of course but they chose to let them be.
"Yeah, or it´s what Naminé told me" Xion told as she putted the seashell in a little back on hers side "Marku won´t tell anything, he become so quiet and dull when I ask about his past and says he better liked it when we didn´t remember"
"Do you know who he is Replica of?" asked Ventus even he already got a strong feeling who, Xion sighted "He´s never told me, but I guess he is replica of Riku. They are very alike, even Marku is more protective and stubborn" she laughed but quickly added embarrassed "don´t tell him I said that!"
Ventus laughed but promise he wouldn´t, they talked about their pasts and only stopped when Xion found another seashell "Oh, by the way; my name is not Xion anymore, but Zinnia" she told and took a lock of hair behind hers ear "My stepmom calls me that, it´s a name of a flower"
Ventus smiled "I like the name, really suits you." he took a stone and threw it out to the water "I´m not sure you already know, but I´m not really Roxas"
From Zinnias shocked expression he guesses not "But you look exactly like him!" Ventus smiled weakly "I´m connected to him I admit, but Roxas is Sora and I´m not them. My name is Ventus, most calls me Ven though"
Zinnia titled hers head, she asked him to tell the whole story and that what Ventus did. He told about how his heart got split into two and Sora newborn heart saved his life. How he trained with his two best friends Aqua and Terra to become Keyblade master, how they got separated and lost in darkness in the battle against Vanitas and Xehanort. How he lost his heart and found once again Sora and felt into a slumber inside of his heart. Then he told how Aqua thinks why Roxas looked like him and was able to dual wield, why Roxas still was him even he have joined Sora.
"So… you are his other half?" asked Zinnia him, Ventus nodded "That´s the close I can describe it, I´m not Roxas. Yet, I have his memories as he had some of my abilities"
Zinnia nodded "I think I understand"
"Well I don´t" sounds Marku´s voice and the older raven haired boy walked towards them "how can a Nobody become human? Just like that"
"How could a Replica become human?" gave Ventus back. Marku couldn´t answer for he did not know, instead he gave him an annoyed look. Zinnia giggled but stopped surprised "Hang on, what about Axel? Is he…"
"He´s death" told Ventus and Zinnia lowered hers head sad, Ventus smiled adding "and returned as human"
Marku eyebrow rose as Zinnia jumped happily up "You mean the red haired guy?"
"That´s right"
Marku sneered turned his back to him "Well if I met that guy I-"
"Don´t tell me you don´t like him either" exclaimed Zinnia in disbelief "Axel is actually a great guy when you lean to know him"
Marku rolled his eyes "Not from my point of view. Anyway, it´s time to go home" he went and Zinnia followed by a "Bye Ven, hope we meet again!"
Ventus waved after them "Me too!"
Ventus ran back to his friends near the ending of the beach "Seems like you got a new friend" teased Hayner and one-arm hugged Ventus there laughed replied "Nope! She was an old friend of mine"
Olette smiled "I like Zinnia, she´s a sweet girl" Pence nodded with hands behind his head.
Hayner released Ventus "Yeah, too bad she has such a jerk of a brother" he said to Ventus there remarked teasing "Then you two would be the best friends"
"What´s that suppose to mean?" '
Ventus laughed alongside his friends of Hayner's outburst. Not knowing at yellow eyes watched them in the darkness.
xXx
In the middle of the night woke Marku by a sound, he sat up in bed and felt the same he every time felt when other dark creatures was near. He rose from bed, quickly and quietly took his clothes on and went outside. He saw the source of the Darkness and the cause to his sudden wakening, he couldn´t see who the person was because of the dark night.
"Who are you?" Marku asked hash and called Soul Eater, he wasn´t much to use this weapon but now he felt he was forced to used it. The person did nothing, making Marku felling a little scared.
"Oh that´s just someone who is very alike to you" replied someone behind Marku and before the raven haired boy could turn around, Adria knocked him out. She took the unconscious boy and smirked to the shadow "Do whatever you want, just remember be back to the party" and then she went with Marku.
The shadow looked down to the Unversed before it and its master went. They have a mission.