Silhouettes

Chapter 3 - Fear, Burns and Emptiness

All characters and rights go to Square Enix, I do not own Kingdom Hearts nor Final Fantasy 7

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“Axel is homing on in the attack, Riku we need to do something.”

“Kairi, we are restricted to one side of the house, I do not know how many times I have to say that.”

“Riku, Kairi, please don’t fight. We need to protect the family, they are so clueless. I also sense movement up in the attic.”

Sora took a nice long shower that night, luxuriating in the warmth of the hot water. His dad had said snidely that Sora would try to boil himself of any existence in a hot shower.

That day had been totally a waste of time and a total drag.

After Roxas’ little spat in town, his mother gave him the silent treatment.

Man didn’t that make both Roxas and Sora feel utterly bad and guilt tripped.

Aerith was a bright person and not much could sway her. But when she was giving the silent treatment to both her boys, it meant she was terribly upset.

Swearing as he turned off the hot tap in his bathroom, as he stepped out into the freezing air of his bedroom he could hear the thumping music from across the hall in his Brothers room.

Apart from an angry Aerith, an angry Roxas was just as bad. Roxas just knew how to express his anger, that’s all.

Sora fidgeted with his towel, his arms shuddering once before all the hair on his arm stood straight up stiff and was covered in Goosebumps.

Walking to the box, still full of clothes, (with more added). Sora rummaged around in the dimness of his flickering old light, into the box before pulling out his blue pyjama pants and a long T-shirt.

‘A bloody Spastic Ward’ he thought with a violent shiver as he looked around his bedroom. ‘Just what we needed to soothe Roxas’ fears Mum. Bloody good one.”

He was dressed within a minute. Unable to bear the cold, Sora pulled out some clean white socks and slipped them on, before sliding over the wood and across the hall to peek into Roxas’ room.

Sora sighed and pushed open the door to see his brother flicking through channels on the TV looking incredibly bored, he looked up abruptly, his face turning into a scowl just as the lyrics of the song burst into the chorus.

“Look, look, Axel it’s the Brother! He has come into the bedroom.”

“Wanna have some fun then Demyx?”

“Absolutely not! Have you not noticed that Xemnas is stirring up in that attic, it will be anytime now that he will descend down and torture not only us, but the others as well.”

“You’re such a killjoy Zexy.”

Sora walked over to the TV and switched it off ignoring the complaints that were being lashed out by his nasty blonde brother. Roxas huffed indignantly sitting up on his bed staring at his brother and turned to his docking station as the song continued to chorus.

“Why does all his music have to make sense? I don’t like it anymore; it’s just making me remember that we were the ones left abandoned!”

“Oh shut up, Demyx, our whole second life has not made sense. We were murdered because of that.”

“Zexion, shut your overly large mouth before I pull your tongue out, Xemnas won’t step foot on my turf, Demyx can say whatever he wants.”