A/N: Gah, school starts on Tomorrow T-T! I'm not ready to go back! *Begins to sob*

Hope: *Pats on shoulder* there, there! You'll be alright…what could be so bad about a new school year?

Me: Less updates on stories! Oh, woe is me! Plus, I have to climb stairs!

Hope:*Starts to tear up* AXEL! Come read the disclaimer!

Axel: Our sad and unhappy authoress doesn't own anything related to Kingdom Hearts, including myself. She owns Hope and this story, and that's it!

The Darkness is getting closer. Even though it is moving slowly, it is still getting closer and closer. It will keep moving as long as people keep surrendering to it, and asking for it. Kingdom Hearts doors must not be opened. Unless they wish for their demise, then they mustn't open the door, or they will surely be obliterated. Show them light, and they shall live….and so will you.

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Axel watched as Hope climbed up the tree to see where they were, only to hold his arms open and catch her as she lost her footing and fell, landing right in his arms. "Well, nice of you to drop in." Axel said, a smirk appearing on his face.

"Ha-ha, very funny…." Hope mumbled, jumping out of his arms and onto her feet, wiping the sweat off of her face. "Man, why does it have to be so hot?"

"Well, we are in a jungle…."

Indeed, they were in the Deep Jungle, wandering around and searching for any signs of civilization, or as Hope liked to put it, anything walking that was alive and human. For a reason that neither of them knew or understood, Saix had told them to go there and scout for Heartless, but there were none to be found, only adding to Hope's frustration. They had been here for almost three hours, having no such luck on finding any heartless.

"Axel, can we just go home?" Hope whined, sweat rolling off her face.

Axel patted her head in sympathy. "Sadly, no."

"BUT THERE AREN'T ANY HEARTLESS HERE!" Hope shouted, causing Axel to wince at the loudness of it. "I'm tired, I'm hungry, and I'm all sweaty and stinky! Axel, I cant live with this for another hour!" Hope exclaimed, grabbing on to the collar of his hood like a madwoman.

"Hope, just-"

"RAAAAAOWWWNHH!" Axel pushed himself and Hope out of the way as a Jaguar leapt at them, baring it's teeth and growling. It looked like it was hungry, and if it was hungry, it meant that Hope and Axel were probably it's dinner.

"A-Axel, I think that we must be on that guys menu, otherwise he wouldn't be looking at us like we were steak!" Hope exclaimed, her voice and entire body trembling as she hid behind Axel, who had his Chakrams in his hands, preparing to defend Hope and himself.

"I cant help but feel that you're right about that…." Axel muttered, throwing a Chakram at the beast, successfully hitting it…and provoking it.

"RAAAOOOW!"

"KYAHH! AXEL, I DIDN'T SAY TO PROVOKE IT!" Hope cried, clinging onto Axel's arm as he began to drag her through the jungle.

Roxas sat on the Clock tower in Twilight Town, sea-salt ice-cream in his hand as he waited for Hope and Axel to show up. When he heard footsteps approaching, he turned around to find Axel and Hope, both with twigs and leaves in their hair, and dirt all over them both, leaving them looking disheveled. Roxas scrunched his nose when the smell of the hit his nose.

"Whatever you do…don't ask." Hope said, her tone sounding tired and dangerous.

Indeed, Roxas had no intention of asking either of them as they sat down and ate ice-cream.

"So, Roxas, what did you do today?" Axel asked, taking a lick of his ice cream while Hope laid her head on his shoulder, slowly eating her own as she did so. Her entire body ached from all the running and falling she had done today in that jungle. Aside from the Jaguar, there was an angry Rhino, which almost crushed her and Axel, and then there was the crocodiles that they encountered when they fell in the lagoon, and finally, the crazy baboons which had thrown mangos and bananas at them, hard enough to leave a few bruises. And then, on there way back, Hope had fallen into a quicksand pit, and almost died, had it not been for Axel, who located a long enough branch to pull her out with, only to find that it had a snake on it and freak Hope out. And then, when they had first gotten there, a spider crawled onto Hope, causing her to scream and panic, along with fall as she ran around and tripped over a rock. All in all, one of the worst days she had ever experienced. When they reported to Saix, she was going to send him the warning that if he ever sent her back to that Jungle, he would wake up with pink hair.

"I learned how recon worked from Vexen. It took a long time, and it was really boring too…" Roxas said, sighing as he did.

"At least you didn't go where we did…" Axel mumbled, wrapping an arm around the now sleeping Hopes shoulders and hugging her to him.

A/N: Short and pointless I know, but I have to go to sleep! Leave a review please! And wish me luck for my first day of high school tomorrow! LATER TATERS! NIGHT WORLD!