Slight warning; Most violent chapter, slight blood. Wanted to point that out just in case anybody cared.

Thank you everyone for reviewing! I'm amazed this story has received this many reviews, let alone eight in one chapter! :D *Throws Roxas/Axel/Xion plushies toward the reviewers*

And I'm sorry I'm SO late stuff happened. Forgive me? o-o; I might be wrapping this up soon as well, (as it was met to be short fic,) but I might do a sequel when I finish up my other fics if people want. ^_^;

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Axel nodded and shoved a hand in his pocket as Roxas blinked, grinning widely after recovering from his initial shock as he looked down at the purple nobodies staring up at Axel that he called Assassins. "That is cool."

"You try." Axel smirked as repositioned his arms to a folded posture across his chest.

Roxas grinned wider after a short bout of hesitation, his voice coming in an over-excited tone like a normal kid on Halloween night. "I can do that?"

"If you try hard enough. They aren't the same either, you control Samurai. Give it a shot." Roxas nodded as he tilted his head downward, blinking slightly. He snapped his fingers as a small group of Samurai appeared, earning a pleased nod from the older male. "See, it's not that hard."

"What about Xion?" Axel mouth pulled into a distant frown of his own wonder as he rested his hand on his chin in thought, tilting his gaze over toward the female who was watching with high interest as she rested her gloved hands on her sapphire-hued jeans. She had a white T-shirt and her Organization cloak that Axel had redesigned into a hooded jacket that reached her waist.

"I'm not really sure, to be honest. I guess we could try to figure it out." Roxas nodded in agreement before the Assassins and Samurai vanished in another snap. Axel smirked as he glanced up toward the clock tower, Xion glancing over her shoulder as she eyed the sandlot.

"Axel?" The redhead grunted in question as he half-heartedly glanced backward to see what she was looking at. She frowned as Roxas perked up slightly. "I think we have company."

"I wasn't one to think you would believe we'd given up so easily, Axel." Xaldin glared from beside Saïx, Xigbar shooting them a grin as Axel glowered while dark thorn-like tendrils crawled up his arms before exploding into flaming chakrams, the anger fire licking dangerously. Oblivion and Oathkeeper appeared threateningly (although considerably less than Axel's own weapons,) as Roxas gave his own glare, Xion's heart rate ascending as she stepped backward behind Axel with fear planted on her face as she eyed Saïx's now thoroughly furious expression.

"You are coming back with us, you three, alive or not." Xaldin demanded with venom dripping off his words with a scowl. "Friendship doesn't exist for us." Three of the lances circling near him rotated in the air before whizzing forward, using the wind attribute to propel themselves faster. A card appeared as it shot forward from behind Roxas, knocking away one of the lances as Axel shattered the remaining two with the Eternal Flames. Xion's head whipped backward to see a grinning Luxord, card in his hands as Demyx stood several feet behind him with a wary frown.

"A challenge, is it?" The Gambler of Fate questioned with a smirk as he spread the deck of cards in his hand, giving a pointed gaze at Saïx. "Don't disappoint me, then."

Saïx growled as he jumped forward toward the gambler, Axel giving a glare as he felt the fire explode into a blazing wall of flames that careened toward Xaldin. Roxas smirked as he jumped toward Xigbar (who was now floating in the air,) trying to land a hit on him as he floated backward. Xion was bewildered by the sudden change in scenery, the sandlot walls and the benches were now charred from the flames of Axel's angry battling, bullets were left to be scattered by the sand as the whole area shook from Saïx's claymore, and cards hovered in the air as the shouts from Roxas' echoed in frustration.

Xion gave a faint squeak as she felt a hand rest on her shoulder, only to be cut short as a hand clamped over her mouth and her eyes darted upward to see green eyes peering down at her with a faint smile. He stepped back as the smaller Nobody looked up at Demyx, who motioned to be quiet before sneaking backward toward an open pathway, Xion blinking back toward her friends in concern before darting after him, hissing out "Demyx!" as he scurried away.

The sitar player gave her a smile as he ducked behind the wall to the clock tower, looking down at her with a bright grin. "Don't worry, I know what Axel pulled. He helped you guys, so I'm kinda returning the favor so I don't look even lazier."

Xion blinked, but smiled up at him before glancing away, her quick smile dissolving. "Do you think they'll be alright?"

"At the rate they're exploding stuff? I'd say yes," He shrugged. "But X-face and Xiggy are pretty angry at you guys, so they better be careful." Xion frowned, sighing as she stared back toward the battlefield, where smoke hung heavily in the air in the sky above as their angry shouts rung in the air. She could vaguely spot several inhabitants of the quiet town watching in shock from afar as a haze of smoke clouded the sky.

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Axel's flames hissed violently as the cold wind from Xaldin lashed out at them, creating more billowing smoke and ash as the blaze met with the wooden benches. Blackened soot clung to the brick walls and air, obscuring most of the battlefield, Axel's fiery red hair the light radiating from Roxas' Keyblades the only things sticking out in the miasma. Axel quickly released an advantage on their side as well when spotted Saïx's blue hair and piercing amber eyes glaring at an unrecognized opponent as he lunged forward toward it.

With a smirk and an angry glint of fire in his emerald eyes, Axel felt the familiar particles of combustion burning on his fingertips, blasting into life in the form of another vicious blaze as it shot toward Xaldin. The third member continued to show a lack of expression as the fire flickered and died down slightly in the windstorm, Axel growling as more fire shot forward as the enemy's lances did the same, one embedding itself into Axel's shoulder as he snarled in fury before turning it into ashes as fire snaked up his arm and enveloped it.

Roxas' head snapped up as Axel's cry snatched his attention, Xigbar taking the opportunity to shoot at him as the bullet flew by his leg before the eye-patched man bent the space around them to sent the bullet through a dark corridor and back toward the blonde. Axel's chakram knocked it away as Roxas jumped back, Axel giving him a glance from afar that read to keep his guard up. Roxas gave a stiff nod back as he flung Oblivion forward, Xigbar giving a bored laugh as he shot another bullet forward. "Come on kiddo, you're slacking. You did better when we fought at the coliseum!"

Roxas' answer back was to land a blow with Oathkeeper as he sprung backward, hissing as he felt one of the arrowgun's pellets barely graze his forearm that caused him to loosen his grip on Oblivion in surprise. Xigbar grinned as he motioned nonchalantly. "Come on, Kiddo." Roxas glared as he jumped forward again, readjusting his hold on Oblivion as he shot a wary glance at Axel and Luxord, squinting as he let out a short cough and bolting forward.

Luxord himself was busy with flashing another card in front of himself as Saïx's claymore connected with it, causing the thin object to vanish as the gambler took the opportunity to step back and fling two giant cards forward that cut through the smoke and at Saïx, who snarled as he lunged again. The Fair Game cards in Luxord's hands shot forward to spin a circle around him and envelop him into their dimension, Saïx's body whipping around as he struggled to identify the card Luxord was concealing himself in. The claymore landed on one of the spinning cards, Luxord appearing as another card stuck the Luna Diviner before vanishing as it was struck down.

Luxord smirked as he shuffled the cards in his hands, raising an arm as the thin cards attacked again, Saïx hissing in annoyance as he batted them away. "Ungrateful! We accepted you into the Organization and this is how you repay us?"

"I've learned the fate you follow is not correct," He responded as another wave of playing cards met their mark. "And it seems I am not the only one who sees this." Saïx snarled as he jumped forward with the Lunatic claymore swung over his head, Luxord throwing up two other cards from his deck to act as a shield as his gaze flickered briefly toward the others.

Axel had gone from angry to utterly infuriated within the small time frame, the fire was blaring from his chakrams at such a deadly heat the sand underfoot had started to crystallize into uneven and quickly shattering glass shards. Fire was shooting across the field at Xaldin at such high speeds that he had trouble blocking Axel's attacks, his lips twisted into a grim frown as the he raised his hand to shoot one of the free lances toward Axel. Xaldin had to suppress a slight scowl as it embedded itself into the redhead's shoulder, although he hadn't shown any sign that he had felt it as blood formed from the wound, only larger flames and more smoke as Axel turned it into more ash.

"Why do insist on saving them?" Xaldin questioned idly as the wind buzzed around the fire. Axel growled, lunging forward as he pitched his chakrams forward again.

"Because unlike you," He paused, coughing as he grinned darkly and adjusting the chakrams at his side for a quick strike, "I have a heart."

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I hope that was a good place to stop for now, and I hope nobody's too mad. Sorry again! D: