1 Sentence Challenge - Axel x Cloud - Epsilon
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Pairing: Axel x Cloud Strife
Theme set: Epsilon
Rating: PG-13 (unsure)
For: 1sentence
Notes: ...I'm really beginning to like this pairing even though others don't, oh well, can't please everybody. I think about two of these sentences actually go together, the rest are completely separate and unorganized. And I'm sorry for making some characters jerks :(
#01 - Motion
Cloud pressed a finger to Axel’s lips, motioning for him to be quiet, as a certain thief had started listening at his door.
#02 - Cool
He pouted to himself as he watched the blonde storm away from him, over something stupid he’d said - it’s not like they had a lot of time together anyway and Axel wondered how long it would take the other to cool off.
#03 - Young
Sometimes Cloud would have a moment where he acted younger than his twenty some years and would do something completely out of character - Axel liked those moments.
#04 - Last
Axel panted, “The last time I was tied up like this, it was an actual punishment.”
#05 - Wrong
“Don’t get me wrong Sunshine,” Axel smirked, “I may look like a bottom, but looks can be deceiving.”
#06 - Gentle
Cloud was surprised at how gentle Axel could actually be - being what he was - but he wasn’t about to complain.
#07 - One
Axel pouted, “Don’t any of your friends think you deserve to be happy?” He began when he and Cloud had run for cover upon seeing a few of the other residences of Radiant Garden; the blonde had sighed and ran a hand through his blonde hair as he thought of a gentle voice and the colour pink, “Just one.”
#08 - Thousand
Sora - except it wasn’t really Sora - stared at the object he held in his hand, blue eyes not belonging to the Keyblade wielder stared sadly at the image in that swordsman’s cell phone; he studied the two people cuddled together, smiling, laughing as the camera snapped a picture - they really were worth a thousand words.
#09 - King
How else was Cloud supposed to respond to “Make me forget my name damn it!” but with a smirk and a “Yes your majesty,” in return.
#10 - Learn
Axel may not have known how to love, and as impossible as it may have been, he would have spent eternity with the blonde learning how.
#11 - Blur
The two bodies, which were fast asleep, tangled together in a way that screamed devotion and love, blurred before a set of shadowed blue eyes as the forgotten figment closed the door.
#12 - Wait
“Wait, wait, wait, let me get this straight,” Axel shook his head as he stared at the blonde, “so you’re telling me that you really weren’t compensating with that sword of yours?”
#13 - Change
It was little things that got the others thinking at first: Cloud would laugh at something silly Yuffie said, he’d smile when Leon challenged him, and he’d stopped flinching whenever Aerith or Tifa came into contact with him; and there was always the muffled noises coming from the blonde’s room most nights…
#14 - Command
“I command you to stay away from that thing,” Leon hissed darkly, only to receive a glare and a warning hiss of “I don’t take orders from you,” before the blonde exited the room.
#15 - Hold
Sometimes Cloud just wanted to hold onto Axel, cuddle the Nobody, remind them both that they had each other and while they were with each other, life was good…
#16 - Need
…and sometimes, Axel needed him to.
#17 - Vision
The Superior’s vision of their future didn’t hold onto Axel the way it used to and it was getting harder and harder to pull himself away from the blonde to go back on his mission.
#18 - Attention
Sephiroth chuckled, “So now that I have your attention, I have a question to ask: how is it that you can sleep with evil and enjoy it - but you won’t join with your own darkness to become whole?”
#19 - Soul
“Well,” Aerith began, showing her support for Cloud as she always did, “If two people can share a soul-” She glanced at Sora, “Then why can’t two people share a heart too?”
#20 - Picture
Sora’s expression was a mix of confusion and absolute horror, “Cloud? What’s this?” He demanded as he held up the blonde’s cell phone - which was clearly displaying an image of a certain redheaded Nobody.
#21 - Fool
The redhead showed up one night, the way he always did - only this time he was ragged and exhausted and looked as if he’d just crawled through the Underworld, “I fooled them,” He grinned, flopping down on the small bed - pulling Cloud down with him, “They think I’m dead now, I can just stay here…” He trailed off, burying his face in the other’s chest.
#22 - Mad
Cloud growled, startling everyone except Aerith, “Will you all just shut up! I’m happy, God, for once in my life, I feel happy, do I not deserve the happiness he brings me just because he’s a Nobody?”
#23 - Child
Their pasts - especially their childhoods - were touchy subjects; one didn’t have one and the other wanted nothing more than to forget.
#24 - Now
Two bodies moved together in perfect unison, and the quiet was broken by a whispered demand of, “You, inside me, now.”
#25 - Shadow
“I dunno,” Axel plucked the lone Shadow Heartless off of the ground before it could disappear, “They’re actually kind of cute,” He dropped the creature into Cloud’s arms - startling the blonde - and as he walked passed them, Cloud and the Heartless shared a sceptical look.
#26 - Goodbye
As the rain poured down and as the blonde walked away from him, Axel couldn’t help but think of how familiar the situation was.
#27 - Hide
Just before the sun woke up, two figures would huddle together, hiding under a soft blanket, refusing to be separated for a few more moments.
#28 - Fortune
“Beware the fire - though elegant and beautiful, it is manipulative and deadly.”
#29 - Safe
“Axel,” Sora cornered him, “You’re safe from me in Hollow Bastion as long as you don’t attack anybody - and only because Aerith likes seeing Cloud smile.”
#30 - Ghost
Green eyes twinkled at the stunned blue eyes that stared back, “Come on Cloud, don’t tell me you’ve forgotten about me already - I was allowed to come back since I sacrificed myself for the brat, heart and all.”
#31 - Book
Axel flipped the pages of the magical book he’d found on a small table in a corner as he smirked in Cloud’s direction, “Wonder what sex in the Hundred Acre Wood would be like.”
#32 - Eye
Axel snorted when he realized it, “Hey, have I ever told you that your eyes sparkle?” He snickered even after Cloud had punched him in the shoulder; “They don’t sparkle, they glow.”
#33 - Never
“The way I understand it, he’ll never be able to love you in return…” Sora spoke softly, but Cloud didn’t care as long as Axel continued to try.
#34 - Sing
Yuffie gawked, “If you’re seriously in love then you should show it a little more,” She advised after slapping him on the back; and as Cloud glared at her disapprovingly he heard Leon snort and reply, “Did you expect Cloud of all people to sing and dance?”
#35 - Sudden
It was like a sudden, unexpected electric shock that had run the entire length of his body when green eyes watched the blonde get attacked and swarmed by a fierce bunch of Heartless - he could actually feel something, and with another startling realization, Axel comprehended that it was fear he could feel - fear for the man about to lose his heart.
#36 - Stop
The world was melting in an inferno of intensity and he could see nothing but white and red - it was like he was burning from the inside out as the fire coursed through his veins to dance along his nerves and melt his very bones; blue eyes glazed over and a choked voice gasped, “Oh god, Axel don’t stop.”
#37 - Time
He had to leave again - and again he didn’t want to, covering a sigh he looked at the silent man in front of him, and he gazed down at their intertwined fingers, wondering how nifty it would be to be able to stop time.
#38 - Wash
“Hold still,” Axel demanded, grabbing Cloud’s chin so he could look at the burn that had marred the other’s cheek, “If you don’t let me wash that out and treat it your pretty face will scar.”
#39 - Torn
Axel wasn’t sure anymore - Roxas or Cloud?
#40 - History
It had been a rare moment of quiet, when Axel was drifting in his own world and in his sleep whispered the one word - name - that seemed to always stab Cloud in the heart; he had known from practically the very beginning of this affair that Axel had a history with that of Thirteen - a very active history at that, and though Axel had forced himself to move on; things still slipped, and Cloud still hurt.
#41 - Power
He could easily throw the wiry frame off him, but why fight it since they both liked this position best?
#42 - Bother
Beady black eyes blinked in confusion as he realized that one of his pots of honey had gone missing and in it’s place a little note that read ‘Thanks for the lube - Number VIII’ had been left in its place, “Oh bother,” Pooh Bear muttered.
#43 - God
Axel was not religious, it was a silly notion to a Nobody - all he had was the Organization and the Superior’s ideals, but damn did he take every opportune - and some inopportune - moments to worship Cloud’s body.
#44 - Wall
One minute he was looking out at the castle, the next he found himself pinned against the crystal wall behind him, and as long as Axel kept doing that thing with his tongue, Cloud didn’t mind.
#45 - Naked
Cloud closed his eyes and shook his head, “Now I feel naked,” He muttered quietly just as the redhead snatched the towel away and replied with a smirk and a “And now you are naked.”
#46 - Drive
Green eyes glinted and the redhead grinned with glee as he pulled the stolen motorcycle back into its parking space, he jumped off and stretched only to find a set of cold blue eyes glaring at him from the dark corner on the other side of the room, the Nobody sighed, “Oh snap.”
#47 - Harm
“What harm could it do?” Axel grinned mischievously as he slid up to bite the blonde’s neck; Cloud raised an eyebrow, “I did have the intention of walking tomorrow.”
#48 - Precious
And as he watched the redhead lavish more attention on the damn bike then on him, Cloud knew who meant more to the other.
#49 - Hunger
The Nobody blinked, “Uh, Cloud, why are you looking at me like I’m a ten course meal and you’ve been starving for a ye-ahhhhhh!”
#50 - Believe
A portal opened and a figure stepped out beside Demyx, who stood on the top of a building that overlooked the Bailey and the blonde that Axel had just separated from, “I’m beginning to believe all your talk about us actually having hearts,” Axel began, “I think…I think I’m really in love.”
and because I'm a loser...
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Pairing: Axel x Cloud Strife
Theme set: Epsilon
Rating: PG-13 (unsure)
For: 1sentence
Notes: ...I'm really beginning to like this pairing even though others don't, oh well, can't please everybody. I think about two of these sentences actually go together, the rest are completely separate and unorganized. And I'm sorry for making some characters jerks :(
#01 - Motion
Cloud pressed a finger to Axel’s lips, motioning for him to be quiet, as a certain thief had started listening at his door.
#02 - Cool
He pouted to himself as he watched the blonde storm away from him, over something stupid he’d said - it’s not like they had a lot of time together anyway and Axel wondered how long it would take the other to cool off.
#03 - Young
Sometimes Cloud would have a moment where he acted younger than his twenty some years and would do something completely out of character - Axel liked those moments.
#04 - Last
Axel panted, “The last time I was tied up like this, it was an actual punishment.”
#05 - Wrong
“Don’t get me wrong Sunshine,” Axel smirked, “I may look like a bottom, but looks can be deceiving.”
#06 - Gentle
Cloud was surprised at how gentle Axel could actually be - being what he was - but he wasn’t about to complain.
#07 - One
Axel pouted, “Don’t any of your friends think you deserve to be happy?” He began when he and Cloud had run for cover upon seeing a few of the other residences of Radiant Garden; the blonde had sighed and ran a hand through his blonde hair as he thought of a gentle voice and the colour pink, “Just one.”
#08 - Thousand
Sora - except it wasn’t really Sora - stared at the object he held in his hand, blue eyes not belonging to the Keyblade wielder stared sadly at the image in that swordsman’s cell phone; he studied the two people cuddled together, smiling, laughing as the camera snapped a picture - they really were worth a thousand words.
#09 - King
How else was Cloud supposed to respond to “Make me forget my name damn it!” but with a smirk and a “Yes your majesty,” in return.
#10 - Learn
Axel may not have known how to love, and as impossible as it may have been, he would have spent eternity with the blonde learning how.
#11 - Blur
The two bodies, which were fast asleep, tangled together in a way that screamed devotion and love, blurred before a set of shadowed blue eyes as the forgotten figment closed the door.
#12 - Wait
“Wait, wait, wait, let me get this straight,” Axel shook his head as he stared at the blonde, “so you’re telling me that you really weren’t compensating with that sword of yours?”
#13 - Change
It was little things that got the others thinking at first: Cloud would laugh at something silly Yuffie said, he’d smile when Leon challenged him, and he’d stopped flinching whenever Aerith or Tifa came into contact with him; and there was always the muffled noises coming from the blonde’s room most nights…
#14 - Command
“I command you to stay away from that thing,” Leon hissed darkly, only to receive a glare and a warning hiss of “I don’t take orders from you,” before the blonde exited the room.
#15 - Hold
Sometimes Cloud just wanted to hold onto Axel, cuddle the Nobody, remind them both that they had each other and while they were with each other, life was good…
#16 - Need
…and sometimes, Axel needed him to.
#17 - Vision
The Superior’s vision of their future didn’t hold onto Axel the way it used to and it was getting harder and harder to pull himself away from the blonde to go back on his mission.
#18 - Attention
Sephiroth chuckled, “So now that I have your attention, I have a question to ask: how is it that you can sleep with evil and enjoy it - but you won’t join with your own darkness to become whole?”
#19 - Soul
“Well,” Aerith began, showing her support for Cloud as she always did, “If two people can share a soul-” She glanced at Sora, “Then why can’t two people share a heart too?”
#20 - Picture
Sora’s expression was a mix of confusion and absolute horror, “Cloud? What’s this?” He demanded as he held up the blonde’s cell phone - which was clearly displaying an image of a certain redheaded Nobody.
#21 - Fool
The redhead showed up one night, the way he always did - only this time he was ragged and exhausted and looked as if he’d just crawled through the Underworld, “I fooled them,” He grinned, flopping down on the small bed - pulling Cloud down with him, “They think I’m dead now, I can just stay here…” He trailed off, burying his face in the other’s chest.
#22 - Mad
Cloud growled, startling everyone except Aerith, “Will you all just shut up! I’m happy, God, for once in my life, I feel happy, do I not deserve the happiness he brings me just because he’s a Nobody?”
#23 - Child
Their pasts - especially their childhoods - were touchy subjects; one didn’t have one and the other wanted nothing more than to forget.
#24 - Now
Two bodies moved together in perfect unison, and the quiet was broken by a whispered demand of, “You, inside me, now.”
#25 - Shadow
“I dunno,” Axel plucked the lone Shadow Heartless off of the ground before it could disappear, “They’re actually kind of cute,” He dropped the creature into Cloud’s arms - startling the blonde - and as he walked passed them, Cloud and the Heartless shared a sceptical look.
#26 - Goodbye
As the rain poured down and as the blonde walked away from him, Axel couldn’t help but think of how familiar the situation was.
#27 - Hide
Just before the sun woke up, two figures would huddle together, hiding under a soft blanket, refusing to be separated for a few more moments.
#28 - Fortune
“Beware the fire - though elegant and beautiful, it is manipulative and deadly.”
#29 - Safe
“Axel,” Sora cornered him, “You’re safe from me in Hollow Bastion as long as you don’t attack anybody - and only because Aerith likes seeing Cloud smile.”
#30 - Ghost
Green eyes twinkled at the stunned blue eyes that stared back, “Come on Cloud, don’t tell me you’ve forgotten about me already - I was allowed to come back since I sacrificed myself for the brat, heart and all.”
#31 - Book
Axel flipped the pages of the magical book he’d found on a small table in a corner as he smirked in Cloud’s direction, “Wonder what sex in the Hundred Acre Wood would be like.”
#32 - Eye
Axel snorted when he realized it, “Hey, have I ever told you that your eyes sparkle?” He snickered even after Cloud had punched him in the shoulder; “They don’t sparkle, they glow.”
#33 - Never
“The way I understand it, he’ll never be able to love you in return…” Sora spoke softly, but Cloud didn’t care as long as Axel continued to try.
#34 - Sing
Yuffie gawked, “If you’re seriously in love then you should show it a little more,” She advised after slapping him on the back; and as Cloud glared at her disapprovingly he heard Leon snort and reply, “Did you expect Cloud of all people to sing and dance?”
#35 - Sudden
It was like a sudden, unexpected electric shock that had run the entire length of his body when green eyes watched the blonde get attacked and swarmed by a fierce bunch of Heartless - he could actually feel something, and with another startling realization, Axel comprehended that it was fear he could feel - fear for the man about to lose his heart.
#36 - Stop
The world was melting in an inferno of intensity and he could see nothing but white and red - it was like he was burning from the inside out as the fire coursed through his veins to dance along his nerves and melt his very bones; blue eyes glazed over and a choked voice gasped, “Oh god, Axel don’t stop.”
#37 - Time
He had to leave again - and again he didn’t want to, covering a sigh he looked at the silent man in front of him, and he gazed down at their intertwined fingers, wondering how nifty it would be to be able to stop time.
#38 - Wash
“Hold still,” Axel demanded, grabbing Cloud’s chin so he could look at the burn that had marred the other’s cheek, “If you don’t let me wash that out and treat it your pretty face will scar.”
#39 - Torn
Axel wasn’t sure anymore - Roxas or Cloud?
#40 - History
It had been a rare moment of quiet, when Axel was drifting in his own world and in his sleep whispered the one word - name - that seemed to always stab Cloud in the heart; he had known from practically the very beginning of this affair that Axel had a history with that of Thirteen - a very active history at that, and though Axel had forced himself to move on; things still slipped, and Cloud still hurt.
#41 - Power
He could easily throw the wiry frame off him, but why fight it since they both liked this position best?
#42 - Bother
Beady black eyes blinked in confusion as he realized that one of his pots of honey had gone missing and in it’s place a little note that read ‘Thanks for the lube - Number VIII’ had been left in its place, “Oh bother,” Pooh Bear muttered.
#43 - God
Axel was not religious, it was a silly notion to a Nobody - all he had was the Organization and the Superior’s ideals, but damn did he take every opportune - and some inopportune - moments to worship Cloud’s body.
#44 - Wall
One minute he was looking out at the castle, the next he found himself pinned against the crystal wall behind him, and as long as Axel kept doing that thing with his tongue, Cloud didn’t mind.
#45 - Naked
Cloud closed his eyes and shook his head, “Now I feel naked,” He muttered quietly just as the redhead snatched the towel away and replied with a smirk and a “And now you are naked.”
#46 - Drive
Green eyes glinted and the redhead grinned with glee as he pulled the stolen motorcycle back into its parking space, he jumped off and stretched only to find a set of cold blue eyes glaring at him from the dark corner on the other side of the room, the Nobody sighed, “Oh snap.”
#47 - Harm
“What harm could it do?” Axel grinned mischievously as he slid up to bite the blonde’s neck; Cloud raised an eyebrow, “I did have the intention of walking tomorrow.”
#48 - Precious
And as he watched the redhead lavish more attention on the damn bike then on him, Cloud knew who meant more to the other.
#49 - Hunger
The Nobody blinked, “Uh, Cloud, why are you looking at me like I’m a ten course meal and you’ve been starving for a ye-ahhhhhh!”
#50 - Believe
A portal opened and a figure stepped out beside Demyx, who stood on the top of a building that overlooked the Bailey and the blonde that Axel had just separated from, “I’m beginning to believe all your talk about us actually having hearts,” Axel began, “I think…I think I’m really in love.”
and because I'm a loser...
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