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Deathly Weather:

Inside Volcano

Demyx tied the small boat to a close by rock. "That should keep it. So, you ready, Ax?" Demyx said with a smile while turning to face Axel. The red head took once a deep breath and nodded.

It was a nice and warm summer day and the two Nobodies had finally decided to return to check the cave. Nearly a year ago it had been saving their lives from an autumn storm. They had borrowed a boat from close by town and Demyx had expertly guided the boat into the small cave while Axel provided the light. The cave wasn't that of long in the end and they soon came to the end of the cave. Still that wasn't the end of their trip. There started a new cave further inside but this time without water anywhere around.

The two Nobodies walked into the dark cave. Axel kept a small ball of fire to provide some light while they moved forward. The cave wasn't wide enough for them to walk next to each other and Demyx had taken the lead which caused some trouble for Axel to keep the fire on right distance from Demyx yet giving enough of light for both to see. "Maybe we should change places, Dem…" Axel suggested but the Nocturne only chuckled and shook his head.

"The cave's too small for changing places." Demyx replied. "Besides, are you scared that the water could come at us?" Demyx continued with a smirk. Axel sighed but glanced once behind to make sure no water was following them. Demyx laughed. "Relax! I'll keep you dry."

"Right. I'm not worried about the water stuff but I am worried about where we are heading into." Axel explained and rolled his eyes at his friend. Demyx only chuckled.

"You're the fire wielder. Shouldn't you know where we heading to, huh?" Demyx asked and glanced behind. Axel sighed again.

"It's not that. I'm not used to keeping the fire in front of myself and someone else that isn't walking whether behind or next to me." Axel said. "Seriously, I can't see a thing from here and I should keep the fire living."

"You worry too much, Ax. It'll be fine." Demyx answered while chuckling a little. "Besides, what could possibly hap-Aaaah!" Demyx started but suddenly screamed.

"Demyx!" Axel shouted and created a new fire closer to himself. "Dem!" He called and looked around in the dark. The way turned down a little and Axel could see Demyx sitting in the ground.

"I… I'm OK!" Demyx shouted and glanced towards Axel. The red head carefully came down close to his friend and helped Demyx up. "Sorry… Should've checked where I was heading to." Demyx said sheepishly.

"You OK?" Axel asked worriedly. Demyx nodded and took once a deep breath. "Good. Now, we change places and I won't take no for an answer." Axel continued and neatly went past Demyx to take the lead.

Demyx only shrugged but followed Axel further into the cave. The road was taking upwards not as harshly as the drop had come but it didn't matter. After some time they came to a crossing. They had two options of ways. "Which way?" Demyx asked.

"Let's go right. We can check the other way some other time." Axel replied before taking other one of his Chakrams out and slashing it few times at the wall. "Just to mark our way." Axel replied when Demyx gave him slightly surprised look.

They continued the way further into the cave. "Is it just me or is this place getting warmer?" Demyx asked and leaned a little against the wall… But pulled off real fast. "Ouch!"

Axel turned around quite fast. "What happened?" He questioned while coming back to his friend.

"The walls are hot. Where are we heading to?" Demyx replied getting little worried.

"Dunno but we'll find out if we go further, right?" Axel answered and nodded forward. Demyx sighed, nodded and continued to follow the red head. "Well, at least there's coming some light." Axel commented after few next turns on the way.

"Ax… It's getting even warmer…" Demyx complained while starting to sweat a little. "We probably should head back…"

"I think I agree with that… We found a volcano…" Axel replied little awed and worried. Demyx blinked in surprise and came closer to the fire wielder.

"Wow… I think this is your new fave place, huh?" Demyx asked with a slight smirk. Axel shook his head.

"No… This one is going to erupt real soon… We should leave as soon as possible." Axel replied worriedly. "Come on, let's get the hell out of here before it's too late." Demyx nodded and turned around to follow Axel to get out of the cave.

After walking some time the ground shook real hard. Both of the Nobodies fell to ground. "Shit! We gotta run now! Come on!" Axel shouted while jumping to his feet and starting to run.

"Axel! Don't leave me behind!" Demyx shouted while trying desperately to stay after his friend. The cave was shaking and Demyx was losing the sight of the light and Axel. "AXEL!" Demyx screamed but the crashing cave was already taking all of the other sounds. The air around Demyx was getting warmer whole time.

The Nocturne glanced once behind him. "Oh shit…" The light of the molten lava was coming closer. Demyx ran as fast as he could while praying to get the hell out of the place in time.

Axel ran out of the cave to the boat. "Dem, you'd better…" He started while turning around. The Nocturne wasn't there. "Demyx?" Axel called worriedly while looking around. "Oh fuck… He's still inside the cave!" Axel panicked. He couldn't go back but he couldn't leave the Nocturne in there either. "Come on, Dem, get out!"

Demyx ran as fast as he could but he couldn't get too far from the heat of the lava. Suddenly he stopped. "Which way?" He had come to a crossing. They had come from other one of the two caves and hadn't noticed the other. Demyx glanced once behind before deciding to take other one of them.

Axel had ran straight through the left side of the caves but Demyx chose the right side… And ended up into a dead end. "Oh damn it… This is it then…" Demyx gulped while turning around and backing against the wall. "I'm sorry, Axel… Hope you got out…" Demyx closed his eyes to wait for the molten lava to come when suddenly the ground gave in.

Demyx screamed but suddenly he was underwater. He blinked few times before realizing to swim off of the drop to prevent the molten lava to fall on him. Demyx had no idea where the underwater cave was taking but if nothing else, it could take to safer place.

Axel couldn't wait anymore. The lava was getting too close because he could see the light coming. "Damn… I really wish that Demyx got out… Maybe he created a dark portal…" Axel thought worriedly before creating a dark portal to get out of the place. The black intergalactic way was looking quite dangerous since it barely kept a shape but Axel walked through it none the less. As fast as he had got through it the portal disappeared. No matter how hard Axel tried to create it again it didn't work. Axel couldn't do anything else than go and check up on Zexion… Just to find out that Demyx hadn't come home yet.

Demyx followed the long dark underwater cave. Even though he didn't see in the dark he could sense his way through the water because of his element. As suddenly the cave had started it ended. Demyx came out to at the sea.

The first thing Demyx did was to come into the surface. "I made it…" Demyx turned to look towards the small island he and Axel had been not too long ago. There was coming black smoke from the highest mountain. Demyx chuckled while swimming to shore of another island. "Never thought there to be a freaking volcano on that island."

The Nocturne sat down on the shore and watched the show of the nature. "Hell, Axel's gonna be really jealous about this… Speaking of him, I truly hope he got out…" Demyx thought and sighed. Suddenly he chuckled. "That thing wouldn't even harm him for sure… Hell, maybe he's even walking in that darn lava."

Suddenly the volcano started to spit out rock and lava. Demyx stood up quite startled. He watched awed how high those pieces flew but what goes up has to come down… The pieces started to fall into the island, sea and… Near to the island where Demyx was standing. "Oh damn… Gotta get out of here!" Demyx thought fearfully and tried to create a dark portal but nothing worked. Suddenly one of the huge rock pieces came real close. Demyx shrieked and started to run away from the shore in hopes of getting further from the danger.

The island where Demyx currently was, was small and he came real fast to the other side of it. The Nocturne didn't wait. He dived straight into the sea and swam as deep as he could get. But that didn't help much. One of the pieces of the flying rocks did come after him and struck quite harshly on Demyx's back.

Fearfully and in pain, Demyx finally found a small cave where he swam straight for safety. Demyx didn't go too far from the mouth of the cave but that didn't matter. The volcano blew up fully and several bigger pieces flew close to the cave where Demyx was at… And shut the mouth of the cave. Demyx was trapped.

The water wielder tried to push the rocks off but nothing worked. Since nothing else was to be done, Demyx left to check the cave. It wasn't long and ended up into a small dry area. Demyx pulled himself out of the water and lay down on the ground. "Damn, that was harsh…" Demyx thought, took once a deep breath and closed his eyes. It didn't take long before Demyx fell asleep out of exhaustion.

Axel and others were getting worried. The dark portals didn't work and Zexion wasn't too sure that Demyx would be all right. The only sign of Demyx being alive was the rock that still shined blue.

The time flew past but Axel got even more worried at every passing minute. He kept on pacing around the living room and praying to get even slight notion that Demyx had gotten into safety. Zexion and others kept on trying to create a dark portal back into the world.

Suddenly Zexion got it through. "Hey! I managed!" Zexion shouted eagerly and Axel shot to his feet from the floor where he was lying on.

"I'm on it!" Axel yelled and was going to run straight through the portal but Zexion stopped him.

"Wait. Someone should stay here in case he comes back." He stated. Axel kept looking from the portal to Zexion and back. "If someone is going to find him then it's me. Just wait here…" Zexion tried to reason when suddenly another portal was created not too far from the first one.

Demyx had woken up few hours earlier. His back was hurting real bad and the dark cave didn't give much of hope for the Nocturne. "Damn this…" Demyx muttered while sitting up. Demyx tried once in a while to create a dark portal back to the castle but he just couldn't get it working. He lay back down on the ground and stared into the dark. "I just wonder… Am I ever going to see the others anymore?" Demyx questioned from the darkness. The place was way too quiet for his liking so Demyx decided to talk aloud.

Sighing Demyx created another black portal but this time it stayed. Demyx was quite surprised but suddenly he smiled, shot up to his feet and nearly ran through the portal. "Finally!"

Axel and others stared at the other portal. "Okay, who created that?" Zexion questioned just before Demyx walked out of it. "Demyx?" The Schemer asked quite surprised. Demyx looked around quite puzzled. What was everyone doing in here? But he didn't have much of time to think about the question before one red headed male was already embracing him.

"DEMYX!" Axel shouted out of glee and straight off hugged the Nocturne. "I was so fucking worried!" Axel nearly yelled into the musician's ear. Demyx was quite shocked of the fast move and slightly cried out of pain. Axel was startled and let go of Demyx straight off. "Dem?" Axel questioned worriedly.

"I'm glad that you got out safely, Ax…" Demyx replied while giving a slightly shy smile. "Um… What is everyone doing in here?" Demyx asked still little puzzled about the situation.

"Worrying about you, Dem." Axel replied before continuing: "I went straight to Zexy to check if you had gotten home. But nope, you weren't here. Then the dark portals didn't work anymore. Well, at least not back into that world…"

"Oh… I kinda noticed that too. Must've been the volcano's fault." Demyx answered with a nod.

"Dem, what happened? Where were you?" Axel started to ask really worried. Demyx sighed sadly.

"I… You left me behind. I couldn't follow you and I chose the wrong way. Thought to come into a dead end but the ground gave in under me…" Demyx started to explain the whole story. Axel and others listened carefully. While Demyx talked Axel started to check on his friend in case he was hurt.

"Dem… What happened to your back?" Axel asked suddenly really worried. Demyx chuckled little nervously.

"I… I was going to come to that…" Demyx replied and glanced behind himself. Axel gave him a look to continue. Demyx chuckled again. "When I was trying to get out of the island, I jumped into the sea and one of the rock pieces hit on me. I hid into a small underwater cave and decided to wait there but the mouth of it was quite soon closed by the rocks. So I went deeper and found a safe place. There I waited until I could come back home." Demyx explained his story to end.

"Well then, we'd better check that out then." Vexen said and walked to the Nocturne. "Doesn't look too bad but it is going to be aching for some time. To the Infirmary, now." Vexen stated and started to guide the Number Nine out of the room. Axel followed real close.

"You think we could check the cave some day, Dem?" Axel questioned on the way to the Infirmary. Demyx laughed.

"Check it? Ax, it's not even going to be there anymore! The lava has crashed it down for sure." Demyx replied.

Axel blinked before blushing. "Damn… Should've thought before asking." Demyx chuckled. "Well, I'm glad we both got out of this safely. You're gonna be OK soon."

"Yeah." Demyx replied with a smile. "Though, before another more or less deathly adventure I would like to heal first."

"Got it. Hope we don't get into another deathly adventure." Axel answered. "Well, if we do, hope we'll get through it without much of danger in the end."

"I agree with that. Though, hopefully we won't get into such too fast." Demyx chuckled. Axel nodded with a smile on his face. Luckily they once again got out of the danger safely.

THE END

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