Hmm... Next chapter. Sorry this took a while, not to mention it's short. I haven't been able to write lately, Sorry!

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Our group peered out into the chunk of missing wall. Trees and grass as far as the eye could see. I pouted, I was sure we would find more. "Wanna just call it a day and forget about it?" Sora huffed, crossing his arms. Roxas was right beside him, their fingers laced together, "Chicken?" the blonde twin cooed. Sora scrunched his nose and stuck his tongue out, not wanting to respond to his brother.

Marluxia was the first to move and cross the thick wall, almost skipping. "I smell floowweerss!!" He sang, calling over to the rest of us. Everyone sighed, Flowers was the only thing Marluxia had a sense for. Well, a sense that wasn't sex.

Poor Marly was just so damn energetic when it came to roses... Especially Pink ones. The freaky part was, his hair was naturally pink... not that I despised the color or anything... it's just...that's not normal, right? RIGHT?! Right.

We took a nice long walk around the woods, I swear, we passed by the same tree at least a brillizian times... But, I was wrong.

As the rest of the group carried on, blabbering to each other, I guess I sorta was caught in a stupid-moment, because I strayed away. Yup, lost in the woods. Boy, would Axel laugh at me when he found out...if I ever WAS found...

"A-ax...Roxy...Marly? Sora!!" I squeaked, literally. I, Demyx, have no sense in direction, from what I've heard.

At first I ran straight forward, this place had to have some sort of end to it... But I only found more and more rows of repetitive trees. I knew that if I called out, other people other than Axel would hear me...and most likely they'd get all pissy at us for crossing the wall thing. So instead of screaming, I did the other thing I was real good at. I ran.

Left, right, uhmm... Left again! I have to admit, the whole sheer luck and guessing thing didn't always work out for me. In fact, I think Mom took all my sheer luck and Xigbar took all the guessing out of me.

Well, that's when I learned that someone could only run for so long. "Awhh Damn it!" I huffed as my legs buckled and my heaving body collapsed under a shady tree. "Forget it! I'll just… live here!" I mean seriously everyone, haven't you guys ever wondered how it'd be to live in the jungle? Eating walnuts and leaves don't seem too bad, maybe a squirrel now and then. Okay, I could never actually eat a squirrel, seriously, no.

But that's off topic. For the whole time I was thinking about this, I guess I didn't realize I fell asleep. Well, not until I felt something land on my nose causing me to totally jump up. "What?! Mom? Xiggy?" My chest was heaving as I frantically looked around, everything was an orange-y color with pure yellow lights glistening through the heavy tree tops.

"SUNRISE?!" It was more of a gasped than an actual exclamation. I scrambled to my feet as fast as I could, slipping on a few dry leaves on the ground. "How, what, NO!!" Running once more, running into whatever I can see. Then that's when it hit me.

"…DUH! TWILIGHT TOWN!!" I forced a laugh, I mean, Twilight Town is naturally always looking like a sun rise, right? Alright, so it was a bit darker of an orange, So I guessed it was only around six or seven. "I'll just find the wall and follow it back… Yeah. Not that hard!"

And thus, with my confidence fully restored and my panic leading the way, I skillfully marched along! No, actually I slipped and constantly bumped into things. Hopefully they were trees. I had no eye problems, and the lighting was fine, I just have no sense of direction. Even if the object is right in front of me…

"Bah!" I finally held my head, shaking it disappointedly, "Ohhh did I ever screw up this time… Owh maahhnnn…" A few more steps then I slowly spun around and fell on the floor, laying quietly within the dense gathering of trees. "Mann… Xiggy, Mom, Ax, Rox…" Before I went on anymore names, I closed my eyes slowly, "Anyone… This was such a stupid idea."

Shhlllaph…

My head shot up, I frantically looked around. Something made some sort of sound. And not like the birdy 'Flap Flap' But a more… Thinner noise.

I waited for a while, sitting still. After a minute or two passed, I decided it was nothing to think about, so I slowly laid back down.

Sssaafff…

It was that noise again! This time I stood slowly, looking around. I knew if I followed it, maybe there was someone there right? Or it could be a monster… "Eep!" I squealed very... Unmanly like and started to breath heavier. I hated horror movies. It's always the person who's alone who gets killed first! That's why you're never supposed to be alone in a horror movie, NEVER! I've watched WAY too many to know that a minor character ALWAYS gets dragged away then KILLED!! KILLED!! Then they don't find his body until the MIDDLE of the movie!! BAHHH!!

Shhllaaapphh…

Luckily, my short attention span lead me to following a cute little squirrel, then leading me closer to the sound.

Shuflap, flapphh…

I finally came to a huge tree, seriously, it was like the size of my room! Maybe I could live in there if I ever did become a jungle boy… Hmm… Maybe.

The sound was clear and crisp, all I needed to do is look around the Tree. Would I regret it? Would I even survive to regret it? Will I eat dinner tonight… Hmm… I wonder what Mom cooked. He's really good at cooking spaghetti… That's weird, he's not Italian…

Anyways, my heart was racing, my finger tips went numb as well as my entire arm. This was when I realized how chilly it was outside. How the air seemed to just freeze your movement. This was weird for Twilight Town, maybe it was because the trees blocked light?

One step, two steps. I snuck around quietly, the sound of the flapping always causing a bitter pause in my thoughts. Finally I reached the side of the tree. My body was pressed flat on the bark, chest slowly raising and lowering to the beat of the wind. My head tilted ever so slowly, luckily my mullet never got messed up so no hair was in my face.

The sound was actually the sound of pages turning, the sound of a book being read. What the hell? Who reads this late at night in a forest? Or all in all, WHO THE HELL READS?! Alright, I really sounded like Axel right now, but I like to read picture books! The thing is, the boy who was reading looked so… Different.

His hair was so shiny, kind of like someone dunk him in water but his hair still stayed so perfect. It layered strangely over one eye, what one would call 'Emo' but personally, I thought it suited him in a mysterious way, heheh… The thing about his hair was it's color. Stranger than even Marly's, it was a silver-blue color. At least, it shone sliver yet shadowed as blue-purple. I just wanted to touch it.

Anyways, the main thing I noticed was his clothes… The shirt was dirty and off-white, stains dirtily smothered across the chest and shoulders. A red ribbon was supposed to be tied neatly around his neck, yet is was undone and just lazily hanging there. One leg propped up with grass-stained and dust infested black slacks as the other rested neatly on the ground. In other words, some sort of junky-pretty emo guy reading a book. Too bad I couldn't see his face, just glasses that seemed to hang on his ear.

I swallowed. What if he was really a killer? He hid a knife or something in that book! Or it wasn't even a book! Just a knife disguised as one! But hey he has pretty hair… Hmmm… I wonder…

"Watcha reading?" I said poppily as I invited myself to sit next to him.

He head snapped from the book as his eyes virtually widened, he gapped at me then literally jumped to his feet, taking a few hesitant looks at me before swiftly turning and running away.

"H-Hey wait! Please! I'm lost!" Okay, that was a stupid thing to yell out, but when he got a good ten feet away, I started to run after him. Deeper and deeper into the dense forest.

Well I definitely ran faster than him, but the thing is he totally knew the way. He memorized each duck, turn or leap of a branch or stub. While I was back there hitting my head, getting branches flung at me or tripping over some random shrub! Totally not fair.

We came to some sort of clearing. I couldn't see well since it was getting darker but I could make out a fence and some sort of giant lock. "Ow ow ow…" I whimpered at all the cuts and bruises I've gotten just by chasing him! I looked up slowly, amazingly the guy had a somewhat blank expression. His chest was heaving, so that proved he was tired, yet his posture was upright and proud. Heh, comes from the boy wearing rags!

I coughed and smiled weakly, "Uhmm.. I'm lost…" I stood as straight as I could, he was my height, maybe an inch or half shorter. We stood in silence, then he stared to glare, within his clenched fists were his reading glasses and his book. The guy took a step forward, opening his mouth as if about to say something.

"Heckshun!" Came a muffled sound a few feet away. Around the fence I could hear the stumble and thumps of heavy boots. Heckshun? What the heck is that? Before I could think I looked back at the guy. His once proud expression was currently glaring and fuming, almost like Axel in the morning. He quickly turned and grabbed my arm, pulling me quickly. "E-Eh!?" I squeaked before running at top speed once more.

I was lead to what looked like some sort of tree growing off the fence. There was a strange wood door perfectly hidden by a jumble of leaves and moss, disguised perfectly as a part of a tree. He pulled out a key and in one swift move pushed me in then followed, closing and locking the door behind him.

It looked like some rich excuse for a basement. Shelves of books with another door on the side, a small bathroom with in. A bed was against the wall which had a glass window tinted black so it couldn't be seen on the outside. A comfy chair and a bright lamp which filled the room with a yellowish glow. Warm wood floors and walls, the ceiling of stone. Just like a jungle boy!

I was fatigued, totally worn out from this whole day. So here I was, laying on the warm wood floor of some stranger. I raised my head slowly, looking at the guy. "Jungle boy…" He turned slowly and gave me a look as if I was crazy. I smiled and waved before laying back on the floor, my head hit the ground lazily. "I'm Demyx…" I said before going completely blank.