Title: Multiple Personalities
Pairings: Sora(Roxas)/Kairi, Sora(Roxas)/Riku, Sora(Roxas)/Axel?
Summary: During the fight at Hollow Bastion Sora starts to get tired and when he is almost attacked by a heartless an unexpected ally shows up, Axel. While fighting along side Axel, Sora starts to take on Roxas' personality and memories and ends up vanishing with the red-head. Riku, Kairi, Donald, Goofy and the King are now trying to discover what happened to the keyblade master while Nexaus continues to plot anew.
A/N: This is AU and I'm pretty sure I got halfway through the game but this is what I thought would be more interesting if it happened, so here I am to tell you guys about my version of KH 2. If anyone has any suggestions for pairings please tell me! Shounen-ai... I might do if theres a great demand for it. (No, I love shounen-ai andyaoi! I just wouldn't know who to pair who with, Roxas(Sora)/ Axel is a no no! Why? Cause Axel is like ... 'old' to Sora... get it? I might do Riku/Sora(Roxas) but I could always make Axel younger...after all he doesn't act old..:winkwink: ) Also in thisstory I'd like to point out that Sora is going to be OOC because he will be acting like Roxas. Okay? Or at least what I expect Roxas to act like...
Warning: Contains cuss words and definatly full of violance! Perhaps shounen-ai depending on you guys... Also SPOILERS! (Slight)
Disclaimer: If I owned Kingdom Hearts do you think I'd be writting this?
"Blah." -Talking
'Blah.' -Thinking
Chapter I: Abducted and Return
They kept coming at him.
The swarm of heartless was almost like a sea, it was nearly never ending.
The blue-eyed boy continued to slash through the creatures, though two more would replace its fallen comrade, he still fought on.
All things have an end but at the moment the heartless didn't look like they were ending anytime soon but Sora's strength was beggining too.
The keyblade master had his limits and they were beggining to reach their end, how long could he hold out? He wondered as he slashed through the shadows.
Riku couldn't believe this!
The silver-haired teen had finally been able to track down his best-friend and only to be attacked by heartless the second he arrived to help him.
In his periphial sight he could spot the others fighting: Cloud and Leon slashing away, Yuffie using her ninja arts, Tifa beating them into a pulp and Donald and Goofy doing what they always did and Mickey hacking away with the golden keyblade while jumping about. But no sign of him.
Riku slashed away a horde of heartless and took this chance to try and scout Sora out.
He finally caught sight of a brown and black-blur hacking away at a mass of black shadows that were crowding in on him.
The figure paused, trying to catch his breath but continued being hounded by the relentless heartless.
Thats when Riku saw it.
Sora was roughly slammed by a metal ball-like heartless followed by a succession of attacks from the others. All the brunette could do was block them.
Sora!
Riku jumped down from the cliff he was onto a ridge then was attacked again by a swarm of iron-clad heartless.
"Damn it! I don't have time to deal with you!"
With that said, he rushed at the offending monsters, slashing away. Then came the sound of an explosion and the backlash of heat and the smell of something scorched.
Riku turned to the source...and almost couldn't believe his eyes!
Sora tried to catch his breath but the damned heartless wouldn't stop!
Then he felt the air leave him as something powerful slammed into him then Sora felt the attacks from the other heartless, he put the keyblade in front of him in an effort to guard. Sora knew that it was going to be over for him soon if he didn't do something. This made him mad.
Sora couldn't fathom where this anger had come from as he saw a heartless Dragoon come in to claim his heart...
But the attack never came.
The offending heartless was cut in half by the waist by a flaming wheel, then the surrounding heartless within six-feet were incinerated by a blast of fire.
Sora shielded his face from the heat but never felt it.
Looking up he saw a familiar person in a long black cloak with firey-red hair and two flaming wheels in each hand,standing in front of him.
Axel.
The said person turned his head to Sora.
"So, you remember me." He said with a smirk that held more meaning then Sora could comprehend.
The brunette was startled. Had he read his thoughts? No. He had said the name outloud.
Axel stared at him now and Sora quickly stood up, taking his stance next to Axel, this made the latter smirk again.
Sora was slightly disturbed, standing next to Axel like this felt familiar.
"Just like old times.." he trailed.
Sora nodded. "Yeah."
At this the keyblade master was more disturbed...then a few memories popped into his head-
His two keyblades were whirling around, slashing away at the infernal heartless that wouldn't leave him alone. A familiar red-head ran beside him, throwing the flaming wheels as heartless tried swarming them.The two stood with their backs touching, waiting...then both striking with fire in the shape of a bird. Axel creating the flames and he leading them toward the targets...
He was knocked backwards by the shield-heartless, he would have hit the wall but was saved when he was caught by a pair of familiar arms. He nodded his thanks and the two double-teamed the heartless, making it sorry it messed with them.
He walked down the darkened street, a new determination pushed him on.
"Are you really leaving..?" the familar voice asked softly.
He nodded. "I need to find out why the keyblade chose me." With that he kept walking but was stopped again,
"You can't betray the Organization! They'll destroy you!" The familiar voice reasoned.
He shook his head slightly. "What's it matter?" He continued walking. "Its not like anyone would miss me." He stated bitterly, not hearing his companions reply,
"Thats not true! I would.."-
Sora visibly shook his head.
Were those...his memories?
"Hey!" That same familiar voice yelled, pulling him out of his thoughts.
The keyblade master reacted, smacking a heartless away that was trying to flank him.
"Day-dream when your not in mortal danger." Axel mocked.
Sora didn't have time to reply, he was immedietly swarmed by heartless.
Axel and Sora were suddenly standing back to back. It was an instinct, Sora backflipped and landed on Axel's fire wheel's, who then proceeded by throwing him into the air, wheels and all.
Sora felt the familiar heat envelope around him, he pointed his keyblade like a lance and was soaring toward the ground, "Phoenix Burst!" he shouted.(1)
The surrounding heartless were reduced to ashes and Sora landed gracefully behind Axel, once again back to back.
The heartless rushed at them again.
Riku would have stood in shock if the heartless wasn't swarming at him again.
The silver-haired teen couldn't believe how Sora and the Nobody were double-teaming and taking down hoards of heartless in seconds.
The red-head would throw his flaming wheels, obliterating the weaker heartless and dealing a fair amount of damage to the higher level heartless, which then Sora took care of. Then the two of them were back to back again then repeating the attacks.
If Riku didn't know any better he would've thought the two had done this before but he did know better so now he was wondering what was going on...?
"Riku!"
The silver-haired teened turned, seeing Mickey running toward him, occasionally taking out a heartless or two that was in his path.
"Your Majesty!"
The mouse king reached the teen and chuckled, "I told you before, call me Mickey!"
Riku smiled for the first time in a while.
A blast of fire interrupted the two and immedietly their heads turned in the direction of the attack, the keyblade flying back toward Sora, accompanied by two wheels. Each weapon returned to its respective owner and once again the two were back to back, Sora suddenly held the keyblade up as if he was about to cast cure but no such thing happened, instead wind swirled around the tip then spread around the two like a protective tornado. The red-headed Nobody's wheels suddenly ignited in flame and he threw them into the wind, the flaming wheels spun around in the wind a few times then exploded causing the tornado to become a fire tornado.
Riku and Mickey stood with their mouths gaping open a bit as the fire tornado exploded, incinerating all the heartless within a mile radias.
The were pulled out of their gaping when they heard running footsteps, uncounciously Riku flattened himself against the wall while Mickey was staring upwards at the cliff that the silver-haired teen had jumped down from.
Riku heard several voices, only two he could indentify though: Donald and Goofy.
"Amazing.." A deep male voice said.
"Wow..!" Three female voices.
"Uh-oh!" This was Goofy.
"Sora!" That was everyone.
Riku's head was instantly in the direction of the brunette.
Sora huffed slightly, his back touching Axel's.
"They just won't quite." Sora muttered more to himself then to Axel.
"Your the keyblade master, they're like, drawn to attack you." The red-head stated.
The brunette rolled his eyes and was about to reply when a Neo-Shadow came right from his own shadow and slammed him into the mass of heartless, instantly getting attacked.
This time, Axel couldn't save him.
The red-headed Nobody was being swarmed with his own heartless and the latter kept casting worried gazes at Sora, who was trying his best to fend of the offenders.
'Damn it!' Axel cursed inwardly. "Silly! Being beaten down by heartless!" He spat the last word with venom, he knew that they had sent the heartless.
Sora immedietly became enraged by that sentance, 'Silly?'. He'd show him!
The brunette suddenly spun around in a circle, causing the heartless to be reflected backwards a few feet, then rushed at him...Sora began to feel an anger that was out of place.. but at the moment he didn't really care. He began slashing the heartless ruthlessly, easily whiping them out.
Axel was grinning like a mad-man at the scene while turning the shadows into pink hearts that were then snatched by the darkness.
'Soon..' The red-head thought to himself.
As Sora continued to fight the heartless, he felt...unbalanced in a way. Holding the keyblade with two hands felt weird and because of this he started attacking with one arm, that's when something brushed against his mind, something familiar, something powerful, something holding a slight darkness. He called out to it. His left hand began to glow with a radiant white light and in his hand appeared another keyblade...the Oblivion.
The brunette once again was attacking the heartless, thrusting here, slashing there, obliterating them with a sort of ease.
Sora once again found himself back to back with Axel.
The sea of heartless was no longer a sea.
At best about only fifty heartless remained, something that could easily be taking care of by one of the two.
Axel was at his side now, giving him a questioning glance. Sora nodded and the two sprang forth, double-teaming the heartless and destroying what was left in under thrity-seconds.
The keyblade master lowered his weapons and stared at them...how was he wielding two at the same time..? Sora was tired but didn't really show it.
"Hey."
Sky-blue eyes met emerald as Sora and Axel's eyes met and for some reason Sora felt like he was reunited with a long lost friend.
"Why did you help me...?" The brunette asked curiously, though he already knew the answer.
Axel was about to reply with a question of his own when they were once again surrounded by heartless. "Uh-oh!"
The red-head looked at his tired companion, who had already returned to his fighting stance.
Axel went back to back once again with Sora, raising his flame wheels in defense, he turned his head slightly so Sora could hear. "I can release Kairi..." The brunette looked at him, startled and Axel cut off whatever he was going to say. "But.." Axel stressed the word but. "I want you to help me get my friend back."
His friend? That sounded easy enough. "I'd do anything to get Kairi back!"
Axel smirked in that way that meant more then Sora comprehend. "I got some advice for you...I wouldn't be so hasty to jump into danger. Got it memorized?"
The brunette continued to look at him and Axel took his silence as a yes. The red-head grinned evilly.
The silver-haired teen watched as the two finished off the last of the heartless, exchange a few words and then be surrounded by more heartless. The two went back to back and Riku observed that the two were talking and he suddenly had a very bad feeling, one that made him jump from the ridge, causing shouts from several people, one being the kings. He heard more yells and he could almost make out the name 'Cloud'.
To Riku's eyes he could already see the Nobody gathering darkness around himself and Sora to teleport, Riku couldn't let that happen. He hoped Sora would notice but his hopes went on deaf ears since the brunette was guarding against the heartless.
"Sora!" He shouted out, hoping that once Sora saw him he would run toward him, away from the Nobody.
Once again his hopes wouldn't be answered as the darkness became stronger and the portal began to form in front of the red-headed Nobody, Sora was too busy slamming heartless away from him and the other.
"Sora!" Riku shouted again, desperation in his voice. He slashed his way through the mass of shadows, his hopes were answered this time. The brunette looked up, hearing his name being called and his face became delighted.
"Riku!" He called out happily, the silver-haired teen's second hope was about to be answered as Sora sliced away the heartless with the Oath Keeper and Oblivion, trying to get to him.
The silver-haired teens second hope wasn't to be answered though.
The brunette created a pathway but before he could get any where near Riku, his face contorted in pain, his eyes shut then he began to fall forward. He was caught lightly by the Nobody's left arm, his right containing the flame wheel he used to knock the former unconcious with.
"Let him go, Nobody!" Riku shouted furiously, trying desperately to reach the two.
This caused the cloaked man to grin madly, "Sorry," he mocked apologized. "but we made a deal. Though the details weren't important at the time..." he trailed off.
Riku knew what he implied. "You tricked him!" His anger started to grow. "Let.Him.Go. Nobody!" Riku said each word a sentance itself and the last word was spat.
"I have a name..." he said while backing up into the darkness that would teleport him and Sora away. "It's Axel, got it memorized?" with this said, Axel grinned madly again and disappeared into the portal, along with Sora.
"No!" He shouted, shooting forward trying to get to the portal before it closed. He was hindered by the heartless. "Sora!"
Suddenly a blond and black blurr whizzed past, straight into the portal that then vanished without a trace. The heartless then vanished also.
Riku felt like a failure and started to feel guilt weigh on him. 'If only I had acted sooner!'
"Sora!"
"Cloud!"
The shouts interupted his self-loathing and he looked up, seeing Mickey, Donald, Goofy and other people he didn't know, running towards him.
The silver-haired teen sighed, now to make this day worse he would have to explain himself.
'Sora...' He thought sadly before he was approached by the gang of answer seekers, thankfully, Mickey was there to help him.
After Riku and Mickey explained the group sat silent, digesting this information.
"I hope Sora and Cloud are alright..." Aerith said softly.
Everyone nodded.
Riku himself felt like he was about to jump out of his skin, he was annoyed with himself and began to loath himself again when a loud swishing noise was heard.
Everyone's attention was focused on the darkness portal that had suddenly appeared.
Someone came flying out of it, Cloud not to far behind.
Half of the gang shouted 'Cloud', then when the other person stood up and they recgonized them right away.
"Kairi!"
Riku looked at his friend, she had changed in the past year. Her crimson hair had grown as did her height, she was wearing a pink dress with a white shirt underneath. She was looking at him also, though he pretty much looked exactly the same except taller.
"Riku!" she said softly and ran to him, embracing him in a warm hug.
"Cloud...what happened?" This came from Leon, interupting the happy reunion.
Everyone was watching the said person, he looked up.
"I jumped into the portal..hoping to catch him. When it shut behind me I was in a strange in-between like world but somehow I had found my way to her..." The blond said looking at Kairi. "It felt like I was being led to her."
"What about Sora...?" It was from Donald.
Cloud shook his head sadly and Kairi looked at the ground. When Cloud had found her he had explained why he was there, Kairi felt distraught when she had heard what had happened but there was no time to cry as Cloud grabbed her and ran, eventually the two had found another portal, which strangely enough had led right back here.
"No trace of him..." The blond replied.
"Then we're just gonna have to find him!" Mickey said.
"Yeah!" Donald and Goofy agreed.
Mickey turned to the silver-haired teen. "Riku...?"
Of course Riku wasn't going to say no, he smiled and nodded at the mouse king. "Let's get him back!"
Goofy and Donald stuck their hands on top of each other, Mickey put his hand in, followed by Riku's. Then Kairi's.
The four looked at the Princess of Heart. "This time, I'll fight too!"
All five smiled. "Now, let's go save Sora!" Riku shouted.
"Yeah!" was the followed reply.
"Good luck!" Yuffie said to the team.
"Yeah, be careful." From Leon.
Aerith smiled gently at both Riku and Kairi, "I know you'll find him...don't despair."
After saying farewell to Leon's group the five of them set off in search of their friend, Sora.
Darkness.
It enveloped him like a blanket and it was welcomed.
He enjoyed the nothingness because there, he was finally allowed some peace.
Wake up!
He ignored the voice calling out to him.
Wake up!
He stirred, willing whoever had the nerve to wake him up to shut the hell up.
He was shook violently and he bolted up right. His vision was blurry as a white room welcomed his sight.
"What...happened?" He asked slightly daze. Where was he!
"Don't worry about that," Came a familiar voice. Looking up he saw a familiar man with spikey red hair and emerald eyes.
"Axel." He muttered.
This caused the said person-or Nobody- to grin wildly, freaking him out a bit.
"Nice to have ya back!" Axel said, playfully slapping him on the the back. "Roxas..."
TBC...
1. Phoenix Burst is my own attack I came up with for this story, no stealing, ask if you want to use it.
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Ja ne!
Angelus