six flames ☆

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

[Axel has a very busy schedule what with saving worlds and all, but he doesn't let that get him down. He's doing some extra training on the Plane to make up for it! Axel can be found dressed in his ringmaster best, surrounded by at least twelve training dummies, with two spiked chakrams clutched in his hands.]

Let's see if I can get that little trick to work again.

[He releases them suddenly, and they speed around him in a circle, slicing every single dummy before they pass each other directly behind him. He extends his arms forward and snatches them right out of the air, then straightens. There's a moment of silence before each of the dummy's torsos fall off and land beside the poles. Thumpthumpthumpthumpthump.

And then they all burst into flame.

Axel looks pleased with himself.]

Comments

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

[...

That is both awesome and terrifying, Axel.]

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

[:D? :D? :D?]

So, Roxas, can I be the leader now?

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

[DOESN'T ANSWER.]

Where did you learn to do that?

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

... Practice?

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

I don't think I want to know what made you think that up.

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

It's a nice trick when being surrounded by Heartless.

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

And what happens if it hits me or Donald or Goofy?

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

... Free haircut?

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

[8|] I don't think so.

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

I know what I'm doing. I promise.

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

[He moves closer to Axel, standing amidst some of the trashed dummies.]

You think you could do it again without hitting me?

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

[Axel eyes this behavior with a frown. For a moment his confidence dims with worry.]

Sure I can. The last thing I wanna do is hurt you, Roxas.

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

[Roxas smiles, just a little, to reassure Axel.]

Then show me.

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

[That helps.]

Hope you can duck~

[He faces away from Roxas and does it again. Even with nothing to slice through, the chakrams hold their course. They look like they're both going to collide into Roxas at the same time, but miraculously, they only go as close as an attacking Heartless would be.

Very, very nifty for helping someone out.]

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

[Roxas leans back, but then relaxes a bit when the chakrams don't even come too close.

After the show is over, he grins.]

What about if I'm moving around?

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

Well, that's a bit more tricky, but nothing I'm not prepared for.

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

Let's give it a shot, then.

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

Start movin'~

[sunkenlight.livejournal.com]

[Nods, then starts to weave between the remains of the previous practice sessions.]

[breathenothing.livejournal.com]

[This would be Naminé watching from afar, eyes wide.

If it hadn't been Axel, she'd probably be pretty frightened. ♥]

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

[Awww, Nami. He looks over at her when he's done and makes his chakrams poof away.]

Hey.

[breathenothing.livejournal.com]

[She smiles a little and waves before taking a few slightly hesitant steps closer -- it's safe now, right? No sudden bursts of flame or anything in the immediate future?]

I guess you've been practicing?

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

[Yeah, it's safe. The fire is gone, anyway.]

Mm-hmm. I got an idea after we got pigeon-holed in a canyon with a bunch of Heartless, and I wanted to test it, that's all.

How are you?

[breathenothing.livejournal.com]

I see, so you can use it if you get stuck again! ... You're both okay, though, right? [She can't help but worry, you know. ♥]

I'm fine! [Smile!] How are you?

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

Of course. I wouldn't let anything happen to him, even though he likes to run headfirst into trouble~

[He smiles back.] Great! We're restocking at Hollow Bastion for now, so I don't have to get snowed on anymore. Man, I hate snow.

[breathenothing.livejournal.com]

[She giggles a little. Some things never change...] Thanks, Axel. You should be careful too, though.

Really? But snow is so beautiful!

[smolderingdark.livejournal.com]

I'm always careful. [He grins charmingly.]

[... which fades at the continued topic of snow.] Sure, it's pretty. But you know what happens when it meets heat? It gets wet.

[weerweer.livejournal.com]

[Isaiah, admittedly, is much more impressed with Axel's hair than with Axel's mad skills, and is squinting in disbelief.]

What happened to your head, man?