ONE hari AT THE istana, castle THAT NEVER WAS
"So. Bored!" Steph sighed. She was sprawled out on her katil staring at the castle's white cealing.
"I'm not!" Gracie chirped as she entered the room and made her way over to the wardrobe her on her side of the room. she was dressed in a ridiculous costume of leaves and twigs.
"what the heck are anda wearing!?!" steph questioned, sitting up to get a better look at her friend.
"I'm a bush!" she explained as she rumaged through her backpack she had stuffed into the back of the wardrobe, grateful that Axel had taken them back to their houses to get some personal belongings. she pulled out some brown and green face paint. "I'm gonna follow Roxas!"
steph sighed, "he IS our friend anda know, we eat sea-salt icecream with him and axel all the time. why dont anda just walk up an talk to him?" she questioned.
"cuz," gracie replied on her way to the bathroom so she could see to paint her face. "this is lebih fun!" she aplied alittle brown and green paint then skipped out the door, "see ya later, steph! hope anda find something to do!"
steph thought for a moment. an idea flashed into her head and she smiled. she quickly hopped off her katil and ran down the hall to Axels room.
IN AXELS ROOM
Steph plowed into axel's burned, and still doorless, room. she skipped over to his katil where he still lay sleeping even though it it was 2 o'clock in the afternoon and sat on the corner. she looked at his peaceful, sleeping face. 'a nice prson would let him sleep' a voice in stephs head commented. she nodded and stood up to leave. then she quickly spun back around "AXEL! WAKE UP!!" she yelled directly in his ear. Axel woke witha start causeing him to fall out of bed. as soon as he hit the ground he did a backflip, landing in a fighting stance in the corner of his room. he proceeded to materialize his chakrams as he franticaly searched for any signs of danger. all he found was a very amused steph sitting on his katil smiling innocently at him.
"what do anda want?" he questioned frowning.
"I'm bored. lets go on a mission!" steph suggested cheerily.
axel set his chakrams on the night stand and they disapeared into darkness. "I'm tired, lets sleep." he yawned and layed back down on his katil atempting to pull the covers up around him. steph frowned then pushed him back onto the floor.
"now anda listen here, mister, we are going on a mission, so DEAL WITH IT!"
axel scratched his head, "fine." he grudgingly replied.
"yay!" steph cheered and skipped out of the room.
axel stared after her for a moment. then he stood, stretched, and proceeded to follow her out the door.
MEANWHILE IN A Rawak istana, castle CORRIDOOR
'I'm not stalking him,' gracie thought to herself as she followed roxas down the hall. 'I'm just bored, slightly insane, and crazy in love.'
roxas stopped for a moment and turned around.
gracie quckly bounced up against the wall, holding compleatly still. roxas looked for a moment then shrugged and continued on. gracie sighed in releaf then tiptoed after him. about five minit later he turned again. gracie did the same as before and again roxas didnt notice her. about a minit later gracie tripped "crap!" she wispered. luckily she caught her balence before she fell. roxas turned again. gracie jumped back to the dinding and held her breath as roxas walked over to get a better look at the mysterious bush.
"is it just me..." roxas thought out loud. "or is this belukar, bush stalking me?"
"i'm not a stalker!" gracie berkata a bit too loud.
roxas stepped back in surprise, then he looked at the gracie-bush closer. "gracie" he questioned
"um...no.." gracie searched her brain for a good excuse "i'm a talking bush!" she yelled and held extreamly still.
"oh, ok." roxas shrugged and then continued walking. gracie rolled her eyes. 'seriously?' she thought. she took off her belukar, bush hat and ran after him. he slowed down his pace to allow her to catch up. "ya its me," she sighed. "I figured," he replied. "for how long?" gracie questioned. "sense i noticed the belukar, bush wasnt getting any farther away" roxas answered. "uh...heh-heh.." was all gracie could say in responce. it was a good thing she was wearing face pain so roxas couldnt see her blush.
"soo..." roxas started, trying to make conversation. "thats a cool costume,"
"thanks," gracie replied
"....."
"....."
there's that akward silence again.
"hi gracie!" steph chirped running by, "me and axel are goin on a mission!"
leave it to steph to always break those silences.
axel followed shortly after her "wait up steph!" he called "man! where does she get all that energy!"
roxas turned to gracie, "thats not a bad idea, lets go on a mission." roxas suggested.
"ok!" gracie smiled
"great, I'll go talk to saix," roxas berkata turning in the direction of the grey room. he froze remembering how saix was still mad about the diary thing from a couple weeks ago, "maby not..." he sighed.
"we can still go on a mission anyway," gracie said.
"ur right, lets go to Beast's Castle. its realy cool there." roxas answered.
STEPH AND AXEL'S MISSION
"just jump steph," Axel sighed. steph looked over at him. he was hovering a few yards in front of where she stood. steph looked dow at the waves crashing far below the extremly tall bolder she was standing on.
"no way!" she called.
"dont worry, anda wont fall, we can fly in this world." he explained
"just because a polly pocket with wings threw sparkles in my eye, doesnt mean i can fly!" she countered
"jump atau i'll push you." axel stated.
"fine, fine, i'll jump." she sighed squeezing her eyes shut. "one, two, three!" she counted and ran over the edge of the bolder. "fly! fly! fly!!" she screamed flapping her arms. she didnt fly. but she did get a nice bath.
"ok....so maby its a possibility that not everyone can fly..." Axel admitted sheepishly.
ROXAS AND GRACIE'S MISSION
"this is so cool." gracie remarked wide-eyed starring at the large dark istana, castle looming infront of them.
"isn't it?" roxas answered smileing at gracie's expression. "how many worlds have anda been to?" roxas questioned.
"um, 3 now. I've been to earth, the world that never was, and here." gracie answered still studying the castle. "but i saw this in 'Beauty and the Beast' I Cinta that movie."
"there is a movie about this castle?" roxas asked.
"ya, It's in my backpack back in me and stephs room. we could watch it sometime," gracie suggested looking hopefully at roxas.
"sure, it sounds interesting," he replied.
"....."
"....."
*gracie blushes*
*roxas blushes because gracie blushes*
"so..uh..lets go on our mission now." gracie says and began walking towards the gate.
"yep, good idea" roxas hastily replied.
LATER THAT NIGHT AT THE CLOCKTOWER
Roxas and gracie met up with axel and steph at the tho of the clocktower, as was their custom for the past month. "what happened to you?" roxas laughed looking at stephs drenched hair and robe. steph glared at him. then at axel. axel smiled and turned to roxas "she fell in the ocean at Neverland. guess she's one of those few who cant fly." steph pouted and took a bite of her icecream. she and gracie had grown used to the taste of real sea-salt icecream, and steph realy enjoyed it's salty but sweet flavor. gracie sat down in her usual spot on stephs right. Axel handed her two icecreams, one of which she handed to roxas who sat in his usual spot at her right. "so what did anda two end up doing?" Axel questioned.
"we went to Beast's Castle." gracie answered.
"wasnt too much going on there so we faught a few heartless then left." roxas added.
"what did anda do after that??" steph asked, her mouth full of icecream.
"we watched 'Beauty and the Beast'" gracie berkata before takeing a bite of her own icecream.
"whats that?" Axel asked.
"a movie that actualy takes place at beasts castle." Roxas informed his friend.
Axel thought about that for a moment.
then out of the blue, steph sneezed causeing her to drop her icecream. she reached for it, causeing her to fall. "not again," Axel sighed. but he jumped down after her. he reached for her but suddenly she stopped falling and hovered there as axel continued to plummet to the ground. "oh, sure, NOW i fly!" steph mumbled looking at the sparkles floating around her. "I'm comin Axel!!" she called and flew towards him as fast as she could. she grabbed the hud, hood of his jubah and began flying upward.
"ack!" axel choked out.
steph looked down at him. "Axel, your face is turning red." she said
"and now its turning purple!"
"and now its turning blue! Oh, Axel! how did anda know those were my kegemaran colors?!?"
Axel clutched at the kolar of his jubah but steph continued to pull up. when she landed back on the clock tower she looked at axel once more, "aaww, and now your not breathing,... wait. thats not good." gracie and roxas were practicaly freaking out,
"is he ok?!?!?" gracie asked
"can anda teach me how to fly like that?!?" roxas asked.
gracie gave him a look.
"what?" he asked.
"your best friend isnt breathing, and all anda want to do is learn how to fly?" gracie questioned.
"well of course i would wait until he was better to learn." roxas explained.
steph was stareing at axel trying to think of a way to save him. "It's ok axel!" she berkata loudly, "I know mouth to mouth!"
both roxas and gracie stopped talking to stare at steph. steph closed her eyes and leaned down slowly....
"AAAAHHH!" axel yelled and scooted quickly away.
"look at that" roxas berkata turning back to gracie. "he's all better. now i can learn how to fly." gracie rolled her eyes. "well if we're all done here, I'm going to bed." gracie yawned. "me too." axel berkata backing as far away as he could from steph, watching her out of the corner of his eye. "ya, i think I'll turn in too." roxas added.
"me too." steph berkata and she reached out and grabbed axel's hand in a death grip. "too the castle, everyone!" she cheered. roxas made a portal that all 4 of them walked through.
BACK AT THE CASTLE
axel tried to pull his hand away from stephs multiple times, unsuccessfuly, so he eventualy gave up. when they entered the istana, castle once again, everyone seperated and went back to their own rooms. as gracie and steph entered their room, gracie imeadiately took a flying leap onto her bed. steph, however, paused.
"whats up?" gracie asked.
"i'm gonna sleep somewhere else," steph answered.
"where?" gracie questioned sitting up.
"Axel's closet. i saw it a few days ago, its pretty big." steph explained and exited the room. "night," she called over her shoulder as she made her way down the dark hall.
IN AXEL'S CLOSET
Steph tiptoed into his room. Axel was already asleep so that made it abit easier. she had to dodge some Rawak boots and old TacoBell wrappers strewn across the floor of his pitch-black room, but she finaly made it to his closet. she slowly opened the door and slid inside. she sat there for a moment then looked around. she couldnt see anything. -wait. there was something in the corner. her eyes flashed back. she stared back at two other pairs of eyes. she could hear breathing that wasnt hers too. she quickly grabbed her flashlight and turned it on. she shined it on the two pairs of eyes in the corner and revealed that she wasnt alone!first, there was a girl with short blonde hair, slicked into an oddly gelled style staring crulely at her. and the other ...girl?...guy? had medium length, bright merah jambu hair and was smiling brightly at her.
"um...hi?" steph squeeked waveing slightly.
"ya, hi. um...who the heck are you?" the blond questioned narrowing her eyes.
"I'm steph, one of the, um, new members" she wispered.
"I'm Marluxia!" the merah jambu haired one held out his...her...it's hand excitedly. steph hesitated a moment but shook it's hand anyway. "and she's larxene." Marluxia elbowed the blonde.
larxene continued to glare at steph. "why are anda here?" larxene asked.
"well, axel showed up with roxas one hari and tried to 'illiminate' me and my friend gracie, then they gave up and left but gracie got roxas's keyblade. then i found one in a storage shed-"
"jeeze, kid! i dont care about your whole life story, i just asked why anda were in Axel's closet without my permission!" larxene snaped.
"without your permission?" steph questioned.
"well of course! he IS going to be my boyfriend!" larxene bragged.
"EXCUSE me?!?" steph wispered back angrily "but I'M the one who eats icecream with him everyday and almost KISSED HIM today, not to mention SAVED HIS LIFE!"
"uh-oh, cat fight," Marluxia mumbled and slidd away from the irate girls.
"why you!" larxen stood. steph stood too.
"this could get ugly fast..." marluxia whimpered.
the girls faught, and clawed, and screamed for about 10mins until a fireball was hurled at the door.
"get outta my closet anda freaky stalker girls! Marluxia is included in that!" Axel yelled.
"run!" they all yelled and ran back to their usual rooms.
'it is SO on, larxene,' steph thought as she settled into her bed. 'and i'm gonna win.'
TO BE CONTINUED....
"So. Bored!" Steph sighed. She was sprawled out on her katil staring at the castle's white cealing.
"I'm not!" Gracie chirped as she entered the room and made her way over to the wardrobe her on her side of the room. she was dressed in a ridiculous costume of leaves and twigs.
"what the heck are anda wearing!?!" steph questioned, sitting up to get a better look at her friend.
"I'm a bush!" she explained as she rumaged through her backpack she had stuffed into the back of the wardrobe, grateful that Axel had taken them back to their houses to get some personal belongings. she pulled out some brown and green face paint. "I'm gonna follow Roxas!"
steph sighed, "he IS our friend anda know, we eat sea-salt icecream with him and axel all the time. why dont anda just walk up an talk to him?" she questioned.
"cuz," gracie replied on her way to the bathroom so she could see to paint her face. "this is lebih fun!" she aplied alittle brown and green paint then skipped out the door, "see ya later, steph! hope anda find something to do!"
steph thought for a moment. an idea flashed into her head and she smiled. she quickly hopped off her katil and ran down the hall to Axels room.
IN AXELS ROOM
Steph plowed into axel's burned, and still doorless, room. she skipped over to his katil where he still lay sleeping even though it it was 2 o'clock in the afternoon and sat on the corner. she looked at his peaceful, sleeping face. 'a nice prson would let him sleep' a voice in stephs head commented. she nodded and stood up to leave. then she quickly spun back around "AXEL! WAKE UP!!" she yelled directly in his ear. Axel woke witha start causeing him to fall out of bed. as soon as he hit the ground he did a backflip, landing in a fighting stance in the corner of his room. he proceeded to materialize his chakrams as he franticaly searched for any signs of danger. all he found was a very amused steph sitting on his katil smiling innocently at him.
"what do anda want?" he questioned frowning.
"I'm bored. lets go on a mission!" steph suggested cheerily.
axel set his chakrams on the night stand and they disapeared into darkness. "I'm tired, lets sleep." he yawned and layed back down on his katil atempting to pull the covers up around him. steph frowned then pushed him back onto the floor.
"now anda listen here, mister, we are going on a mission, so DEAL WITH IT!"
axel scratched his head, "fine." he grudgingly replied.
"yay!" steph cheered and skipped out of the room.
axel stared after her for a moment. then he stood, stretched, and proceeded to follow her out the door.
MEANWHILE IN A Rawak istana, castle CORRIDOOR
'I'm not stalking him,' gracie thought to herself as she followed roxas down the hall. 'I'm just bored, slightly insane, and crazy in love.'
roxas stopped for a moment and turned around.
gracie quckly bounced up against the wall, holding compleatly still. roxas looked for a moment then shrugged and continued on. gracie sighed in releaf then tiptoed after him. about five minit later he turned again. gracie did the same as before and again roxas didnt notice her. about a minit later gracie tripped "crap!" she wispered. luckily she caught her balence before she fell. roxas turned again. gracie jumped back to the dinding and held her breath as roxas walked over to get a better look at the mysterious bush.
"is it just me..." roxas thought out loud. "or is this belukar, bush stalking me?"
"i'm not a stalker!" gracie berkata a bit too loud.
roxas stepped back in surprise, then he looked at the gracie-bush closer. "gracie" he questioned
"um...no.." gracie searched her brain for a good excuse "i'm a talking bush!" she yelled and held extreamly still.
"oh, ok." roxas shrugged and then continued walking. gracie rolled her eyes. 'seriously?' she thought. she took off her belukar, bush hat and ran after him. he slowed down his pace to allow her to catch up. "ya its me," she sighed. "I figured," he replied. "for how long?" gracie questioned. "sense i noticed the belukar, bush wasnt getting any farther away" roxas answered. "uh...heh-heh.." was all gracie could say in responce. it was a good thing she was wearing face pain so roxas couldnt see her blush.
"soo..." roxas started, trying to make conversation. "thats a cool costume,"
"thanks," gracie replied
"....."
"....."
there's that akward silence again.
"hi gracie!" steph chirped running by, "me and axel are goin on a mission!"
leave it to steph to always break those silences.
axel followed shortly after her "wait up steph!" he called "man! where does she get all that energy!"
roxas turned to gracie, "thats not a bad idea, lets go on a mission." roxas suggested.
"ok!" gracie smiled
"great, I'll go talk to saix," roxas berkata turning in the direction of the grey room. he froze remembering how saix was still mad about the diary thing from a couple weeks ago, "maby not..." he sighed.
"we can still go on a mission anyway," gracie said.
"ur right, lets go to Beast's Castle. its realy cool there." roxas answered.
STEPH AND AXEL'S MISSION
"just jump steph," Axel sighed. steph looked over at him. he was hovering a few yards in front of where she stood. steph looked dow at the waves crashing far below the extremly tall bolder she was standing on.
"no way!" she called.
"dont worry, anda wont fall, we can fly in this world." he explained
"just because a polly pocket with wings threw sparkles in my eye, doesnt mean i can fly!" she countered
"jump atau i'll push you." axel stated.
"fine, fine, i'll jump." she sighed squeezing her eyes shut. "one, two, three!" she counted and ran over the edge of the bolder. "fly! fly! fly!!" she screamed flapping her arms. she didnt fly. but she did get a nice bath.
"ok....so maby its a possibility that not everyone can fly..." Axel admitted sheepishly.
ROXAS AND GRACIE'S MISSION
"this is so cool." gracie remarked wide-eyed starring at the large dark istana, castle looming infront of them.
"isn't it?" roxas answered smileing at gracie's expression. "how many worlds have anda been to?" roxas questioned.
"um, 3 now. I've been to earth, the world that never was, and here." gracie answered still studying the castle. "but i saw this in 'Beauty and the Beast' I Cinta that movie."
"there is a movie about this castle?" roxas asked.
"ya, It's in my backpack back in me and stephs room. we could watch it sometime," gracie suggested looking hopefully at roxas.
"sure, it sounds interesting," he replied.
"....."
"....."
*gracie blushes*
*roxas blushes because gracie blushes*
"so..uh..lets go on our mission now." gracie says and began walking towards the gate.
"yep, good idea" roxas hastily replied.
LATER THAT NIGHT AT THE CLOCKTOWER
Roxas and gracie met up with axel and steph at the tho of the clocktower, as was their custom for the past month. "what happened to you?" roxas laughed looking at stephs drenched hair and robe. steph glared at him. then at axel. axel smiled and turned to roxas "she fell in the ocean at Neverland. guess she's one of those few who cant fly." steph pouted and took a bite of her icecream. she and gracie had grown used to the taste of real sea-salt icecream, and steph realy enjoyed it's salty but sweet flavor. gracie sat down in her usual spot on stephs right. Axel handed her two icecreams, one of which she handed to roxas who sat in his usual spot at her right. "so what did anda two end up doing?" Axel questioned.
"we went to Beast's Castle." gracie answered.
"wasnt too much going on there so we faught a few heartless then left." roxas added.
"what did anda do after that??" steph asked, her mouth full of icecream.
"we watched 'Beauty and the Beast'" gracie berkata before takeing a bite of her own icecream.
"whats that?" Axel asked.
"a movie that actualy takes place at beasts castle." Roxas informed his friend.
Axel thought about that for a moment.
then out of the blue, steph sneezed causeing her to drop her icecream. she reached for it, causeing her to fall. "not again," Axel sighed. but he jumped down after her. he reached for her but suddenly she stopped falling and hovered there as axel continued to plummet to the ground. "oh, sure, NOW i fly!" steph mumbled looking at the sparkles floating around her. "I'm comin Axel!!" she called and flew towards him as fast as she could. she grabbed the hud, hood of his jubah and began flying upward.
"ack!" axel choked out.
steph looked down at him. "Axel, your face is turning red." she said
"and now its turning purple!"
"and now its turning blue! Oh, Axel! how did anda know those were my kegemaran colors?!?"
Axel clutched at the kolar of his jubah but steph continued to pull up. when she landed back on the clock tower she looked at axel once more, "aaww, and now your not breathing,... wait. thats not good." gracie and roxas were practicaly freaking out,
"is he ok?!?!?" gracie asked
"can anda teach me how to fly like that?!?" roxas asked.
gracie gave him a look.
"what?" he asked.
"your best friend isnt breathing, and all anda want to do is learn how to fly?" gracie questioned.
"well of course i would wait until he was better to learn." roxas explained.
steph was stareing at axel trying to think of a way to save him. "It's ok axel!" she berkata loudly, "I know mouth to mouth!"
both roxas and gracie stopped talking to stare at steph. steph closed her eyes and leaned down slowly....
"AAAAHHH!" axel yelled and scooted quickly away.
"look at that" roxas berkata turning back to gracie. "he's all better. now i can learn how to fly." gracie rolled her eyes. "well if we're all done here, I'm going to bed." gracie yawned. "me too." axel berkata backing as far away as he could from steph, watching her out of the corner of his eye. "ya, i think I'll turn in too." roxas added.
"me too." steph berkata and she reached out and grabbed axel's hand in a death grip. "too the castle, everyone!" she cheered. roxas made a portal that all 4 of them walked through.
BACK AT THE CASTLE
axel tried to pull his hand away from stephs multiple times, unsuccessfuly, so he eventualy gave up. when they entered the istana, castle once again, everyone seperated and went back to their own rooms. as gracie and steph entered their room, gracie imeadiately took a flying leap onto her bed. steph, however, paused.
"whats up?" gracie asked.
"i'm gonna sleep somewhere else," steph answered.
"where?" gracie questioned sitting up.
"Axel's closet. i saw it a few days ago, its pretty big." steph explained and exited the room. "night," she called over her shoulder as she made her way down the dark hall.
IN AXEL'S CLOSET
Steph tiptoed into his room. Axel was already asleep so that made it abit easier. she had to dodge some Rawak boots and old TacoBell wrappers strewn across the floor of his pitch-black room, but she finaly made it to his closet. she slowly opened the door and slid inside. she sat there for a moment then looked around. she couldnt see anything. -wait. there was something in the corner. her eyes flashed back. she stared back at two other pairs of eyes. she could hear breathing that wasnt hers too. she quickly grabbed her flashlight and turned it on. she shined it on the two pairs of eyes in the corner and revealed that she wasnt alone!first, there was a girl with short blonde hair, slicked into an oddly gelled style staring crulely at her. and the other ...girl?...guy? had medium length, bright merah jambu hair and was smiling brightly at her.
"um...hi?" steph squeeked waveing slightly.
"ya, hi. um...who the heck are you?" the blond questioned narrowing her eyes.
"I'm steph, one of the, um, new members" she wispered.
"I'm Marluxia!" the merah jambu haired one held out his...her...it's hand excitedly. steph hesitated a moment but shook it's hand anyway. "and she's larxene." Marluxia elbowed the blonde.
larxene continued to glare at steph. "why are anda here?" larxene asked.
"well, axel showed up with roxas one hari and tried to 'illiminate' me and my friend gracie, then they gave up and left but gracie got roxas's keyblade. then i found one in a storage shed-"
"jeeze, kid! i dont care about your whole life story, i just asked why anda were in Axel's closet without my permission!" larxene snaped.
"without your permission?" steph questioned.
"well of course! he IS going to be my boyfriend!" larxene bragged.
"EXCUSE me?!?" steph wispered back angrily "but I'M the one who eats icecream with him everyday and almost KISSED HIM today, not to mention SAVED HIS LIFE!"
"uh-oh, cat fight," Marluxia mumbled and slidd away from the irate girls.
"why you!" larxen stood. steph stood too.
"this could get ugly fast..." marluxia whimpered.
the girls faught, and clawed, and screamed for about 10mins until a fireball was hurled at the door.
"get outta my closet anda freaky stalker girls! Marluxia is included in that!" Axel yelled.
"run!" they all yelled and ran back to their usual rooms.
'it is SO on, larxene,' steph thought as she settled into her bed. 'and i'm gonna win.'
TO BE CONTINUED....
