Fear in the Darkness, Chapter X



“Finde ihm, finde Sora...” Demyx said, then he took a sip of water before continuing. “Which roughly translates to ‘find him, find Sora’…” Axel, Demyx, Zexion, and Kairi were all sitting in the dinning room of Cloud’s Manor discussing what had happened at Roxas’ apartment. For some time they all sat in silence, until Demyx decided to pose the question the four of them were all thinking. “Does anyone know who Sora is?” The other three shook their head’s no.

“I wonder if this Saïx man you told us about would know.” Zexion said, looking from his blond companion to the redhead across from him.

“I don’t know, he might…” Axel paused for a moment, “What I would also like to know is why was Saïx so determined to get into Roxas’ apartment?”

“I don’t know who Saïx is,”  Kairi said, “but I do know that I’ve heard his name before.”

“Really?” The red haired man said, turning to her. “Can you think of were?”

“Hmm, maybe….” She looked at the ceiling for a moment, before getting up, and walking to the door.

“Hey Kairi, were you going?” The tall blond said, turning in his set.

“I’m going to see is my suspicions are right, before I say anything,” she then walked out the door. The three remaining men just looked at each other in mild confusion, before the silver haired man spoke.

“Maybe we should try talking to Roxas? See if he’ll give us any other clue to who this Sora character is, or were we could find him.”

“I don’t think he can understand us,” Demyx said solemnly. “I talked to Naminé before Axel and I left, she said that he’s becoming more and more primal in behavior by the day.” The redhead looked away from his friends after hearing such horrid news about his brother.

“Words might not make it thru to our little friend, but there is something that can.” At the sound of Zexion’s last words, Axel’s eyes drifted back to the other two men, but he did not speak.

“Really?”

“Well while you two were away Xigbar, Leon, and I did a little experiment. Don’t worry we didn’t hurt your brother,” the doctor added at the look of worry on the older brother’s face. “We simply played different kinds of music, and showed Roxas different things, in an attempt to find something that could calm him down. We’re becoming desperate you know, because of all the injuries you guys sustain when trying to settle him down. Anyways, Leon had found this old red dragon stuffed ani-“

“You found Lea!?” Axel said with shock, almost getting out of his chair.

“I take it that Lea is the stuffed animal?”

“Yah, I lost him years ago.”

“You lost him?” Now Zexion was in a mild state of shock. Demyx however, was very confused.

“Yes I lost him, he was mine before I came to live with Aerith and Cloud.”

“Well, that changes things…”

“What do you mean?” Dem said, finally coming out of his very confused state, and was now simply confused.

“As I was saying, Leon found Lea. Though, we thought it belonged to Roxas since he found it while searching his half of Axel’s bedroom. Well, when Roxas saw it in Xigbar’s hands he went ballistic. Snatched that stuffed animal out of  Xiggy’s grasp, breaking his wrists in the process. One minute he’s walking in the room, dragon in front of him, the next he’s swearing up a storm. Since then, Roxas has been deadly protective of the toy, and now I think I know how to get thru to him.” Zexion looked at the redhead next to him.

“What?” The redhead was now just as confused as the blond.

“It’s you Axel… Roxas is possessive of something you own…something red…something that likes fire…something that has green eyes…don’t you get it? Roxas is possessive over you. Axel, I think you’re the only one that can reach him.”

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Axel laid in bed, thinking about everything Zexion had told him a few hours ago, and about what would happen when he went to see his brother in the morning. It was half way thru the night before the redhead finally drifted into sleep, but that did not mean that his brain had stopped thinking.

A woman in white stood before him, she is smiling at him, and yet as the redhead looks into her eyes his heart is breaking…
As she kisses him she fades into a room…
The redhead is dressed a black tux… the only thing he can see is a pair of intense blue eyes staring at him… tears flood from them… the redhead falls to the floor…engulfed in the carpet…
He is now sitting in a red booth…he is at a restaurant… surrounded by people who’s faces are blurred… they are talking… a messy haired blond walks away from the group… walks out the door… the redhead gets up and fallows…when he opens the door he finds a grave yard on the other side…
He is standing in front of two graves… Cloud…the blond in his arms… Aerith… crying… he can hear a voice in the background… “take care of each other…”
Darkness falls… the redhead finds himself in a living room… a brunet woman is screaming at him… he can not understand her… he turns away from her… jumps out the nearby window…
He is sitting at the beach… eating sea salt ice cream… someone is talking to him…
Don’t do it…
Stay here with me…
You’re the only one I’ve ever cared about…
You’re the only one I’ve ever truly loved…
Without you I’m nobody…
The redhead walks into the water… falls forwards… sinking towards its dark depths…
His heart stops…
Before he hits the bottom…
And is consumed by the endless darkness…

Axel woke with a start, drenched in sweat. Before he was even consciously aware of what he was doing, he had opened the door to Roxas’ room, and walked in…



TO BE CONTINUED…