#odzuki

"Pfff, I'm not worried.  We got this, huh?  Won't be long now before we're back home.  Oh--well--yeah, but, I dunno.  Maybe we'll rebuild.  Or we don't have to go there, we can go wherever we want to now!  So...just don't forget that, okay?

Early morning missions were usually such a pain, but Axel was excited.  That is--about as close to "excited" as a Nobody could legitimately get.  He accepted the expected assignment to the Enchanted Dominion and promptly spirited himself far into Maleficent's domain.

Supposedly, she was working on some other lair and had been away a lot.  So this was not quite as stupid as it could've been.

"Hey!"  Axel stuck his fingers in his mouth and whistled.  "Slackers!  That means you!"

Grunting, several pig guards and a few evil-eyed vultures looked his way.

"Whadd'ya call a horny bitch with green skin?"

Almost before he got the last word out someone was already firing an arrow at him.  Tough crowd.  Axel dodged it with an eel-like twist and took off, zigzagging along the way to avoid other projectiles.  He waited until he had a pretty sizable set of grunting, arrow-chucking pursuers before snapping his fingers and calling a lesser Nobody.

So far he only had one or two, so he had to be a little careful with them--but he was calling his the "Assassins," and he spoiled them outrageously.  They would always be loyal to Xemnas first, he knew--but that didn't mean he couldn't buy their temporary silence.  "Hey, quick favor?  Go get Saix.  Tell him I'm in all kinds of--"  He ducked sharply and an arrow whizzed by overhead.  "Trouble."

"Hey.  So I was thinkin' in terms of a two-man recon sometime, you game?  I mean, it's not like I need the help and neither do you, buuuut I dunno it seems like it'd be kinda nostalgic.  Could even go for ice cream after!"