Chapter 8: Picnic with Wolves

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It was late at night in Ever After dorm rooms as Roxas was struggling in his sleep. In his dream he was sitting atop the clock tower in Twilight Town watching the sunset.

"Man, sure has been a long time since I was here." Roxas said admiring the view.

"Don't you mean we Roxas?" He turns to see Axel and Xion standing by the tower.

"Guys! Oh man I'm glad to see you." Roxas smiles.

"Really? Cause to us it seems like you forgot about us." Xion crosses her arms.

"What no I would never."

"You left the Organization and became a traitor and left me behind to deal with Xemnas and Saix all by myself. I was your closest friend and you turned you back on me." Axel said glared.

"Axel calm down." Roxas said standing up.

"Oh, you think that's bad Axel, don't you remember how our loyal friend struck me down." Xion glared.

"T-That's not true Xion." Roxas stutters.

"You wanted to be your own person so badly you ended up losing the two friends who were always there for you." Axel said summoning his Chakrams.

"With what you did to us I'm almost curious how you plan to ruin things for your new friends. Almost." Xion said summoning her Keyblade.

"Goodbye old friend." Axel said as he and Xion charge causing Roxas to step back and fall from the clock tower screaming.

"AAAAAAHHHH!" Roxas yells waking up. He looks around his room to see he was still at Ever After High.

"Just a bad dream." Roxas sighed as he slammed down on his pillow.

He holds out his hands and from them a flash of light and darkness appear and from them the Oathkeeper and Oblivion Keyblades appear in his hands.

"I know what they said wasn't real, but did I really abandon them?" Roxas asks before making the Keyblades vanish.

Roxas looks over to see his Organization coat hanging by his bed. He tries to go back to sleep but thinking about that nightmare makes it nearly impossible to fall asleep.


Since it was a day off from school Roxas had decided to go to the Enchanted Forest to help clear his mind and maybe get in a little Keyblade and Magic practice.

As he was walking Roxas thought about the words Xion told him. "Would I really just end up hurting everyone here? The Heartless are here because of me." Roxas grabs his head in frustration not noticing he was walking into the deep part of the woods until he heard something quickly move past him. "Huh?"

The footsteps get louder as the figure moves faster. Roxas follows the sound of the movements and summons Oblivion pointing to some bushes only to see a little wolf. "Oh, hey little guy." Roxas said as the wolf howls.

"You find something Carmine?" A voice said from behind the bushes.

From the bushes Cerise comes out. "Roxas?" She said surprised.

"Hey Cerise."

"What doing all the way out in this part of the forest?" Cerise asks.

"Just trying to clear my head. What are you doing out here?" Roxas asks.

"Oh uh I was just meeting some people." Cerise said a little nervous.

"Some people I thought with our history we would at least be at the insult stage." Roxas and Cerise look up to see a girl with long brown hair and a long red streak, lots of jewelry, wolf ears, fangs and claws.

"You know this girl Cerise?" Roxas asks.

"Ramona Badwolf's the name blondie and yes Cerise and I have quite a history." Ramona smirks.

"Beat it dog breath, I was just about to take my friend back to school, you know the one where you were sent away from for reform school." Cerise said causing Ramona to
growl.

"Well my sentence is almost up and I'll be back in no time." Ramona said.

"Why do you girls hate each other so much?" Roxas asks.

"She's little Red's daughter and I'm the daughter of Big Bad it's our destiny." Ramona said.

The two girls lock eyes and glare when a loud noise echoed through the forest.

"Huh? What the?" Cerise said as a wolf pack ran past them scared.

"It's the pack!" Ramona said in shock.

"But what could be causing it?" Cerise asks.

Roxas looks around where the wolfs ran from and walked in that direction with Cerise and Ramona.

"Sis what do we do? If this guy finds out our family secret?" Ramona asks.

"Roxas isn't a snitch, but right now until whatever is scaring away the wolves is gone we have to work together." Cerise said.

"Grr. I hate teamwork, but dammit I'll help." Ramona growled.

"Hope Mom and Dad don't mind us being a little late for the picnic." Cerise said as they caught up to Roxas.

As they make their way to a small clearing with a huge lake Ramona sniffs the air. "This is where the pack likes to rest, so whatever is doing this must be nearby."

"So Roxas what had you so shaken up back there?" Cerise asks.

"It was a nightmare I..I rather not talk about it." Roxas frowned.

"Hey, come one that's what friends do." Cerise said.

"Alright well you see- Hold on we got company." Roxas said as Cerise and Ramona braced themselves.

Above them in the trees monkey like Heartless slide down from the vines some were blue those were Powerwilds, the others were orange and had slingshots those were
Bouncywild. The Heartless dropped down from the trees and surrounded them.

"Monkeys drew the wolves away?" Ramona asks surprised.

"Those aren't monkey and if you aren't careful they'll get you." Roxas said readying Oblivion. "Can you girls fight?"

Both Cerise and Ramona grin.

"Who do you think you're talking to?" Ramona said.

"We got this." Cerise said.

As the Powerwilds jump down to attack the Bouncywilds load their slingshots and fire.

"We got the ones in the back!" Cerise said as she and Ramona sprint at very fast speeds running right towards the Bouncywilds. One tries to whack Cerise, but she sidesteps
delivering a powerful kick to the gut while Ramona slices it with her claws. Both girls exchange nods before going to the next one.

With Roxas a Powerwild swings in from a vine to attack, but Roxas blocks the attack and counters sending it crashing back. As the others surround him Roxas uses the head of one of them as a spring before jumping in the air. "Firaga!" Roxas blasts a giant fireball destroying the Heartless.

"Man, I don't know what the wolfs were so scared about those were easy." Ramona said.

"For once I agree with you." Cerise said neither noticing a large shadow behind them. They both look in horror to see a Tailbunker grab them both with it's claws before taking
off into the air causing both girls to scream.

Roxas looks up to see the girls struggling to break free. "Cerise! Ramona!" Roxas yelled, little did he know someone in the woods heard him yell and gasps.

"Girls?!" It said before running in the direction of Roxas.

Roxas pursed the Tailbunker trying to think of a way to save them. "I could strike but then the girls would plummet. What do I do?" Roxas panics.

"Put down my daughters!" Roxas looks to see Mr. Badwolf in wolf form jump from the trees biting down hard on the Tailbunker causing it to scream in pain letting the girls go.
"Girls!" He jumps down and catches Ramona first, but as he goes to Cerise he saw she was too far down. "Cerise!"

"Aeroga!" Roxas fires a blast of wind catching Cerise and bringing her down safety. "Cerise are you whoa." Roxas stops in his tracks as he sees Cerise with her hood down and
wolf ears on her head like Ramona's.

"Roxas you have to stop that monster!" She yells snapping him out of it.

"Right, Mr. Badwolf I need your help." Roxas said to his teacher.

"Got a plan to stop that thing?"

"I want you to huff and puff and send me flying right towards it." Roxas said summoning Oathkeeper in his other hand.

"You sure kid?" Badwolf asks.

"Just do it." Roxas said as he took a deep breath and blew a powerful gust of wind sending Roxas flying towards the Tailbunker. "You're mine!" Roxas slams both Keyblades into it causing the Heartless to scream in pain before disappearing.

"Way to go Roxas!" Cerise cheers.

"Cerise your hood!" Ramona notices.

"Oh no this isn't good." Mr. Badwolf said as Roxas made his way back.

"Is everyone alright?" He asks.

"Kid come with us." Mr. Badwolf said leading Roxas with the girls right behind them.

As they continued walking there was an uncomfortable silence. "Uh Mr. Badwolf?"

"You don't talk yet, I do understand?" He said getting a nod. "Roxas what you saw his something nobody can know about."

"What's the big deal about a couple of wolf ears?" Roxas asks.

"Hello! It means that Little Red Riding Hood married her enemy the Big Bad Wolf." Ramona said causing Roxas' eyes to widen.

"And you two are sisters?" Roxas asks.

"We do the act so people don't connect the dots." Cerise said.

"And why are you telling me this?" Roxas asks.

"Cause we're about to find out if you're trustworthy enough." Mr. Badwolf opens a clearing where a woman with a red hood was setting up a picnic. "Hi honey."

"Mom." Both Cerise and Ramona smile.

"Oh, there are my little girls." Red Riding Hood smiles hugging them before looking at Roxas. "So who's this young man?"

"Mom this is Roxas and the reason he is hear is well because he knows." Cerise gulps.

"And tell me Roxas what do you plan to do with this?" Red Riding Hood asks.

"Uh nothing." Roxas admits surprising them.

"Nothing? Why?" Ramona asks.

"Well you're my friend Cerise and just because this is your family I should change my opinion? I'm not gonna tell anyone if you don't want anyone to know. Besides those ears don't change any way I see you." Roxas said.

"You're a strange one Roxas but thank you." Cerise smiles.

Ramona looks at the smile on Cerise's face and rolls her eyes.

"Would you like to join us?" Red asks.

"Uh sure." Roxas sits down on the picnic cloth.

"Did you bring the Bacon Potato Salad? I love that stuff." Mr. Badwolf smiles.

As Roxas watched the happy family enjoy their time together he couldn't help but wish he could experience a happy feeling close to that in the future.

'I made my choices, and because of them I have a new chance here and I'm not gonna waste it.' Roxas smiles before enjoying the picnic.