1 Sentence Challenge - Axel x Cloud - Delta
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Pairing: Axel x Cloud Strife
Theme set: Delta
Rating: PG-13 (unsure)
For: 1sentence
Notes: ...Some of them can be put together, and others have nothing to do with the rest. And I realize I focus everything in Hollow Bastion, but I really don't know the Organization too well except for about five members. x.X
#01 - Air
Cloud pinched his nose, unsure if whether the other’s finally accepting Axel was a good thing or a bad thing as yells of ‘You’re so full of hot air you stupid pyro!’ and ‘At least I’m not a ninja-wannabe airhead!’ echoed through the Market.
#02 - Apples
Axel naturally smelled like burnt cinnamon, it wasn’t overpowering or anything, but it always lingered around him and whenever he’d use the apple scented shampoo that he’d found in Cloud’s shower, the two scents would mix together and make Cloud’s mouth water.
#03 - Beginning
It hadn’t been all sunshine and smiles in the beginning, they were both the enemy and neither were sure how far they could trust the other.
#04 - Bugs
Leon huffed as he cornered Cloud after a long day of working on the restoration of their world, “Take your boyfriend home and do whatever you need to do to shut him up - he bugs me,” and that was one order that Cloud wasn’t going to disobey.
#05 - Coffee
Cloud adapted to things pretty easily - it had been a necessity to staying alive - and when he realized that the only fun way to calm Axel when he was loaded with caffeine and bouncing off the walls was to go at it like bunnies until the redhead passed out from exhaustion - he’d adapted without complaint.
#06 - Dark
With a growl and a pounce, Axel had the swordsman pinned against the ground and green eyes glared down at him, “Don’t you dare call yourself a Heartless - I mean, sure you made a contract with the darkness and you were lost for a while - but you found yourself and you have a heart, a really big heart - you’d have to, to accept someone like me.”
#07 - Despair
Axel had appeared, as usual and almost immediately he could sense a change in the blonde sitting on the bed, confused he studied the other - who seemed even more depressed than the last time they’d been together - until Cloud finally looked at him and sighed, “They know.”
#08 - Doors
Axel never used doors and Cloud was pretty sure it was because the redhead was highly amused every time he’d startle the blonde with his sudden appearances - and if Cloud ever asked, Axel would tell him he was right.
#09 - Drink
Cloud smirked behind the cup of tea Aerith had offered him a few moments ago as he watched Axel start on his second cup of coffee.
#10 - Duty
Cloud was a depressed sort of person, Axel understood this well and made it his personal duty to make the blonde smile and chase away the darkness as much as he could.
#11 - Earth
The earth was cool as two figures - both cloaked in black - lay upon it, staring up at the star littered sky, and with a contented smile, green eyes glanced over at his companion before returning to the vast ocean above them, “I didn’t know that being happy could be so simple.”
#12 - End
Axel sighed, giving up, it didn’t matter how much they argued about it, he supposed, the end result would be the same as always, and one of them would be tied to that bed.
#13 - Fall
Axel wanted to know, so Cloud told him that he felt that being in love was like falling through a dark hole where you couldn’t see anything above you or anything below you because love’s blind like that and even though falling can be a scary thing, the thrill is almost always worth it.
#14 - Fire
Aerith had been worried ever since Sora had come back to their world and revealed that Axel had sacrificed himself for the Keyblade wielder; she’d grown concerned when Cloud grew a little more self-destructive each passing day, and her heart sank when he’d completely converted back to his old self - his passion had died.
#15 - Flexible
It may not have looked like it, but they both had schedules - Cloud had been roped into helping the others in Radiant Garden, and Axel was working for the Organization, and though Cloud’s schedule was more flexible and easy to change, it was up to Axel to decide when he’d appear.
#16 - Flying
Axel curled around the blonde’s body and leaned his ear against Cloud’s chest so he could hear the strong heartbeat the way he always did when he felt listless, and he sighed softly when an arm wrapped around his shoulders, “You know, being with you, even just like this…makes me feel free.”
#17 - Food
Cloud stared at the fruit Axel had just thrown at him in confusion; it kind of looked like one of Yuffie’s shuriken…except yellow-er; he looked at the redhead for an answer - was Axel blushing? - “Heh, there’s this legend to go with this fruit, you see…”
#18 - Foot
“Cloud,” Axel whined as he knocked on the locked door again - sure, he could have easily used a portal to enter the room, but he had more respect for the blonde than that and the lock was an obvious sign that he wasn’t allowed to enter just yet; “Look, I’m sorry - it was an accident, Zexion always said I have an eternal case of Foot-In-Mouth syndrome - ah come on, next time we’re having sex on Fenrir, I promise to call out your name instead of the bike’s!”
#19 - Grave
The Proof of Existence was quiet and peaceful and whenever he wanted to be alone, he’d borrow one of Cid’s gummi ships and travel to The World That Never Was - it was easy since all the doors had stayed open - and because the world had been abandoned, he knew he was the only one there so he was able to sit beside the broken ‘headstone’ and mourn by himself.
#20 - Green
A Nobody was just the leftovers - the soul in a shell of a body that had been left behind; but wasn’t a soul as important as a heart? Cloud thought so, and he found it ironic, that a Nobody - a being apparently incapable of feeling - could show such emotion through the windows of his soul.
#21 - Head
Axel was making a few Assassin Nobodies dance - some were waltzing, some were doing ballet - one was even line dancing - when Cloud came upon him, and the blonde just looked at him and muttered, “Sometimes I wonder what goes through your head, other times, I’m not sure I want to know.”
#22 - Hollow
A cold sense of dread settled in the pit of his stomach as Cloud noticed how Axel would sometimes seem to look through the Key-bearer and realized with a sick sense of detachment that there was a longing within the Nobody - a longing for something he could never have.
#23 - Honor
Axel was warmed by the fact that Cloud kept him so close to his heart, Axel felt it a privilege - no one had ever done so before.
#24 - Hope
It was a hopeless future, but nobody wanted to say anything to dampen the blonde’s attitude - Axel would either be defeated by Sora, or the Nobodies would be victorious and they’d most likely be turned into Heartless along the way.
#25 - Light
Blue eyes slowly fluttered open at the light caress along his cheeks, his neck and even his lips; Axel was awake and looking as if he hadn’t slept at all - Cloud blinked as he watched the other and Axel only shrugged, leaning closer to place a light kiss on the blonde’s forehead, “Just memorizing.”
#26 - Lost
When Axel had first spied the blonde, his first impression had been that he had been looking at a misplaced soul, he’d been right of course - but who’d have guessed that he’d be the one to guide that soul back to the light?
#27 - Metal
Cid had observed it first: the fact that the couple acted like a pair of children while they fought - the laughing and banter passed so easily between them despite the very real clanging between their weapons.
#28 - New
The blue Ribbon around Cloud’s left bicep was new and when asked what it was for, he’d just smile and shrug - nobody needed to know that Axel had given him the Accessory for protection.
#29 - Old
Axel huffed even though he knew why the other was being difficult, “You know, your angsting is getting really old,” he tried to play tough, tried to make the entire situation easier, but he couldn’t keep his mask when Cloud muttered softly, “Then don’t go.”
#30 - Peace
They leaned in ever so slightly, both felt shy as if they were innocent teenagers - the sun was at a perfect angle to glint off of the blonde’s hair, and the rays caused those emerald green eyes to sparkle; their lips touched gently - there was no urgency, no fight for dominance - there was just tranquility.
#31 - Poison
Everything about the blonde was like a drug - his voice, his kisses, his touches, his warmth, his light, his everything - Axel wondered how long it was going to take before he overdosed.
#32 - Pretty
Green eyes were staring at him and it was beginning to get on Cloud’s nerves, he looked up at Axel for an explanation, but all the Nobody did was shrug his shoulders and smirked - he knew what the answer was going to be, but he had to ask anyway, “What would you do if I said that you were the prettiest thing I’ve seen on any world I’ve been on?”
#33 - Rain
The redhead didn’t like the rain, it was a constant in The World That Never Was and he much preferred Cloud’s sunshine and warmth.
#34 - Regret
Even though Axel was a Nobody and couldn’t feel, Cloud still felt guilty when in the heat of an argument he’d say something he didn’t mean.
#35 - Roses
By the end of the day Cloud was ready to crawl into his bed and never wake up again - anything that could have gone wrong did and Leon, probably just to prove his alpha male status, had given Cloud all the dirty work - so when the blonde finally made it to his room and found two roses resting on his pillow, a black and a red, and he spied the body curled up fast asleep beside them, he decided that any long day was worth it if he got to come back to this.
#36 - Secret
Axel secretly wished that Roxas had been Cloud’s Nobody so that he wouldn’t have to choose between them and instead could be with both of them.
#37 - Snakes
He slithered through the darkness, focused on his unsuspecting pray - upon reaching his victim he pounced, coiling himself around the startled body and squeezing with all his limbs until his pray groaned, “Ah come on Cloudy, the sun’s up and you should be too!”
#38 - Snow
It rarely snowed in Radiant Garden, but when it did it got really cold; and while most of the others complained and whined, Cloud liked to take advantage of the fact that the fiery Nobody detested being cold and always wanted to cuddle.
#39 - Solid
Axel was like a beacon in the darkness of Cloud’s nightmares, and the Nobody made sure that once the blonde woke from one, he’d be there as something to hold on to.
#40 - Spring
They always slept in Cloud’s bed (it wasn’t like Axel was going to take the blonde back to the Organization - oh, that would have been fun) and though it wasn’t a large bed, it was big enough for the both of them - that of course didn’t stop one from sleeping atop the other, neither wanting to rest upon that one damn coil that had come loose…
#41 - Stable
“You realize that both of us are unstable and are liable to kill each other while being together, right?” Cloud mentioned one day, Axel only grinned, “At least we won’t get bored.”
#42 - Strange
It had been strange at first, to randomly find Cloud either being pinned or pinning Axel against a random object - now it was becoming commonplace.
#43 - Summer
“Damn it,” Cloud muttered as he ran a hand through his hair as he looked at a pouting Axel, “Leon just retracted my holiday and he wants me helping out in the lab, lucky you, it looks like my summer’s over,” and something inside Axel shivered at those words.
#44 - Taboo
Sora knew that he was welcome in Radiant Garden by all but Cloud - and he knew it wasn’t because the blonde hated him - far from it, Sora knew that one day he’d come bearing the news of Axel’s defeat and he’d have to tell Cloud that his lover wouldn’t be coming back - it would be hard, but it was life when you were sleeping with the enemy.
#45 - Ugly
In Cloud’s eyes, his wing was still ugly - no matter how much Axel liked to run his fingers through the feathers, and no matter how good those fingers felt.
#46 - War
Yuffie started the pranks by stealing Axel’s cloak one night and bleaching it white, then to add insult to injury she drew with a pink marker all over the cloth until it was covered with lollypops and of all things clouds - to spare Yuffie the wrath of a fire-using Nobody, Cloud promised Axel that it was her way of accepting him; that, of course, flew out the window when he saw that Yuffie had painted Fenrir pink - that meant war.
#47 - Water
Cloud winced as the cold water hit him and he reminded himself of why Axel wasn’t supposed to shower alone - he always used all of the hot water.
#48 - Welcome
“Fanks.” Axel muttered, taking the ice pack from Cloud’s hand, watching as a smirk crossed the blonde’s face as he nodded in a ‘sure, anytime’ kind of way and the redhead pouted, making a mental note to never call the swordsman ‘pretty’ again.
#49 - Winter
All the pranking was put to a stop by Leon after one prank went too far and lead to both Yuffie and Cloud being locked in Scrooge McDuck’s ice cream freezer for over an hour - while Yuffie was given blankets and hot chocolate to warm her up - Cloud was treated to a different kind of tending which involved a bed and a very warm blooded Nobody to cuddle with.
#50 - Wood
There was a small wooded area outside Radiant Garden that almost nobody dared to go, trees surrounded the little site and tall grass could hide anything from view - it was a good thing too because much to Cloud’s amusement, Axel was definitely up for anything.
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Pairing: Axel x Cloud Strife
Theme set: Delta
Rating: PG-13 (unsure)
For: 1sentence
Notes: ...Some of them can be put together, and others have nothing to do with the rest. And I realize I focus everything in Hollow Bastion, but I really don't know the Organization too well except for about five members. x.X
#01 - Air
Cloud pinched his nose, unsure if whether the other’s finally accepting Axel was a good thing or a bad thing as yells of ‘You’re so full of hot air you stupid pyro!’ and ‘At least I’m not a ninja-wannabe airhead!’ echoed through the Market.
#02 - Apples
Axel naturally smelled like burnt cinnamon, it wasn’t overpowering or anything, but it always lingered around him and whenever he’d use the apple scented shampoo that he’d found in Cloud’s shower, the two scents would mix together and make Cloud’s mouth water.
#03 - Beginning
It hadn’t been all sunshine and smiles in the beginning, they were both the enemy and neither were sure how far they could trust the other.
#04 - Bugs
Leon huffed as he cornered Cloud after a long day of working on the restoration of their world, “Take your boyfriend home and do whatever you need to do to shut him up - he bugs me,” and that was one order that Cloud wasn’t going to disobey.
#05 - Coffee
Cloud adapted to things pretty easily - it had been a necessity to staying alive - and when he realized that the only fun way to calm Axel when he was loaded with caffeine and bouncing off the walls was to go at it like bunnies until the redhead passed out from exhaustion - he’d adapted without complaint.
#06 - Dark
With a growl and a pounce, Axel had the swordsman pinned against the ground and green eyes glared down at him, “Don’t you dare call yourself a Heartless - I mean, sure you made a contract with the darkness and you were lost for a while - but you found yourself and you have a heart, a really big heart - you’d have to, to accept someone like me.”
#07 - Despair
Axel had appeared, as usual and almost immediately he could sense a change in the blonde sitting on the bed, confused he studied the other - who seemed even more depressed than the last time they’d been together - until Cloud finally looked at him and sighed, “They know.”
#08 - Doors
Axel never used doors and Cloud was pretty sure it was because the redhead was highly amused every time he’d startle the blonde with his sudden appearances - and if Cloud ever asked, Axel would tell him he was right.
#09 - Drink
Cloud smirked behind the cup of tea Aerith had offered him a few moments ago as he watched Axel start on his second cup of coffee.
#10 - Duty
Cloud was a depressed sort of person, Axel understood this well and made it his personal duty to make the blonde smile and chase away the darkness as much as he could.
#11 - Earth
The earth was cool as two figures - both cloaked in black - lay upon it, staring up at the star littered sky, and with a contented smile, green eyes glanced over at his companion before returning to the vast ocean above them, “I didn’t know that being happy could be so simple.”
#12 - End
Axel sighed, giving up, it didn’t matter how much they argued about it, he supposed, the end result would be the same as always, and one of them would be tied to that bed.
#13 - Fall
Axel wanted to know, so Cloud told him that he felt that being in love was like falling through a dark hole where you couldn’t see anything above you or anything below you because love’s blind like that and even though falling can be a scary thing, the thrill is almost always worth it.
#14 - Fire
Aerith had been worried ever since Sora had come back to their world and revealed that Axel had sacrificed himself for the Keyblade wielder; she’d grown concerned when Cloud grew a little more self-destructive each passing day, and her heart sank when he’d completely converted back to his old self - his passion had died.
#15 - Flexible
It may not have looked like it, but they both had schedules - Cloud had been roped into helping the others in Radiant Garden, and Axel was working for the Organization, and though Cloud’s schedule was more flexible and easy to change, it was up to Axel to decide when he’d appear.
#16 - Flying
Axel curled around the blonde’s body and leaned his ear against Cloud’s chest so he could hear the strong heartbeat the way he always did when he felt listless, and he sighed softly when an arm wrapped around his shoulders, “You know, being with you, even just like this…makes me feel free.”
#17 - Food
Cloud stared at the fruit Axel had just thrown at him in confusion; it kind of looked like one of Yuffie’s shuriken…except yellow-er; he looked at the redhead for an answer - was Axel blushing? - “Heh, there’s this legend to go with this fruit, you see…”
#18 - Foot
“Cloud,” Axel whined as he knocked on the locked door again - sure, he could have easily used a portal to enter the room, but he had more respect for the blonde than that and the lock was an obvious sign that he wasn’t allowed to enter just yet; “Look, I’m sorry - it was an accident, Zexion always said I have an eternal case of Foot-In-Mouth syndrome - ah come on, next time we’re having sex on Fenrir, I promise to call out your name instead of the bike’s!”
#19 - Grave
The Proof of Existence was quiet and peaceful and whenever he wanted to be alone, he’d borrow one of Cid’s gummi ships and travel to The World That Never Was - it was easy since all the doors had stayed open - and because the world had been abandoned, he knew he was the only one there so he was able to sit beside the broken ‘headstone’ and mourn by himself.
#20 - Green
A Nobody was just the leftovers - the soul in a shell of a body that had been left behind; but wasn’t a soul as important as a heart? Cloud thought so, and he found it ironic, that a Nobody - a being apparently incapable of feeling - could show such emotion through the windows of his soul.
#21 - Head
Axel was making a few Assassin Nobodies dance - some were waltzing, some were doing ballet - one was even line dancing - when Cloud came upon him, and the blonde just looked at him and muttered, “Sometimes I wonder what goes through your head, other times, I’m not sure I want to know.”
#22 - Hollow
A cold sense of dread settled in the pit of his stomach as Cloud noticed how Axel would sometimes seem to look through the Key-bearer and realized with a sick sense of detachment that there was a longing within the Nobody - a longing for something he could never have.
#23 - Honor
Axel was warmed by the fact that Cloud kept him so close to his heart, Axel felt it a privilege - no one had ever done so before.
#24 - Hope
It was a hopeless future, but nobody wanted to say anything to dampen the blonde’s attitude - Axel would either be defeated by Sora, or the Nobodies would be victorious and they’d most likely be turned into Heartless along the way.
#25 - Light
Blue eyes slowly fluttered open at the light caress along his cheeks, his neck and even his lips; Axel was awake and looking as if he hadn’t slept at all - Cloud blinked as he watched the other and Axel only shrugged, leaning closer to place a light kiss on the blonde’s forehead, “Just memorizing.”
#26 - Lost
When Axel had first spied the blonde, his first impression had been that he had been looking at a misplaced soul, he’d been right of course - but who’d have guessed that he’d be the one to guide that soul back to the light?
#27 - Metal
Cid had observed it first: the fact that the couple acted like a pair of children while they fought - the laughing and banter passed so easily between them despite the very real clanging between their weapons.
#28 - New
The blue Ribbon around Cloud’s left bicep was new and when asked what it was for, he’d just smile and shrug - nobody needed to know that Axel had given him the Accessory for protection.
#29 - Old
Axel huffed even though he knew why the other was being difficult, “You know, your angsting is getting really old,” he tried to play tough, tried to make the entire situation easier, but he couldn’t keep his mask when Cloud muttered softly, “Then don’t go.”
#30 - Peace
They leaned in ever so slightly, both felt shy as if they were innocent teenagers - the sun was at a perfect angle to glint off of the blonde’s hair, and the rays caused those emerald green eyes to sparkle; their lips touched gently - there was no urgency, no fight for dominance - there was just tranquility.
#31 - Poison
Everything about the blonde was like a drug - his voice, his kisses, his touches, his warmth, his light, his everything - Axel wondered how long it was going to take before he overdosed.
#32 - Pretty
Green eyes were staring at him and it was beginning to get on Cloud’s nerves, he looked up at Axel for an explanation, but all the Nobody did was shrug his shoulders and smirked - he knew what the answer was going to be, but he had to ask anyway, “What would you do if I said that you were the prettiest thing I’ve seen on any world I’ve been on?”
#33 - Rain
The redhead didn’t like the rain, it was a constant in The World That Never Was and he much preferred Cloud’s sunshine and warmth.
#34 - Regret
Even though Axel was a Nobody and couldn’t feel, Cloud still felt guilty when in the heat of an argument he’d say something he didn’t mean.
#35 - Roses
By the end of the day Cloud was ready to crawl into his bed and never wake up again - anything that could have gone wrong did and Leon, probably just to prove his alpha male status, had given Cloud all the dirty work - so when the blonde finally made it to his room and found two roses resting on his pillow, a black and a red, and he spied the body curled up fast asleep beside them, he decided that any long day was worth it if he got to come back to this.
#36 - Secret
Axel secretly wished that Roxas had been Cloud’s Nobody so that he wouldn’t have to choose between them and instead could be with both of them.
#37 - Snakes
He slithered through the darkness, focused on his unsuspecting pray - upon reaching his victim he pounced, coiling himself around the startled body and squeezing with all his limbs until his pray groaned, “Ah come on Cloudy, the sun’s up and you should be too!”
#38 - Snow
It rarely snowed in Radiant Garden, but when it did it got really cold; and while most of the others complained and whined, Cloud liked to take advantage of the fact that the fiery Nobody detested being cold and always wanted to cuddle.
#39 - Solid
Axel was like a beacon in the darkness of Cloud’s nightmares, and the Nobody made sure that once the blonde woke from one, he’d be there as something to hold on to.
#40 - Spring
They always slept in Cloud’s bed (it wasn’t like Axel was going to take the blonde back to the Organization - oh, that would have been fun) and though it wasn’t a large bed, it was big enough for the both of them - that of course didn’t stop one from sleeping atop the other, neither wanting to rest upon that one damn coil that had come loose…
#41 - Stable
“You realize that both of us are unstable and are liable to kill each other while being together, right?” Cloud mentioned one day, Axel only grinned, “At least we won’t get bored.”
#42 - Strange
It had been strange at first, to randomly find Cloud either being pinned or pinning Axel against a random object - now it was becoming commonplace.
#43 - Summer
“Damn it,” Cloud muttered as he ran a hand through his hair as he looked at a pouting Axel, “Leon just retracted my holiday and he wants me helping out in the lab, lucky you, it looks like my summer’s over,” and something inside Axel shivered at those words.
#44 - Taboo
Sora knew that he was welcome in Radiant Garden by all but Cloud - and he knew it wasn’t because the blonde hated him - far from it, Sora knew that one day he’d come bearing the news of Axel’s defeat and he’d have to tell Cloud that his lover wouldn’t be coming back - it would be hard, but it was life when you were sleeping with the enemy.
#45 - Ugly
In Cloud’s eyes, his wing was still ugly - no matter how much Axel liked to run his fingers through the feathers, and no matter how good those fingers felt.
#46 - War
Yuffie started the pranks by stealing Axel’s cloak one night and bleaching it white, then to add insult to injury she drew with a pink marker all over the cloth until it was covered with lollypops and of all things clouds - to spare Yuffie the wrath of a fire-using Nobody, Cloud promised Axel that it was her way of accepting him; that, of course, flew out the window when he saw that Yuffie had painted Fenrir pink - that meant war.
#47 - Water
Cloud winced as the cold water hit him and he reminded himself of why Axel wasn’t supposed to shower alone - he always used all of the hot water.
#48 - Welcome
“Fanks.” Axel muttered, taking the ice pack from Cloud’s hand, watching as a smirk crossed the blonde’s face as he nodded in a ‘sure, anytime’ kind of way and the redhead pouted, making a mental note to never call the swordsman ‘pretty’ again.
#49 - Winter
All the pranking was put to a stop by Leon after one prank went too far and lead to both Yuffie and Cloud being locked in Scrooge McDuck’s ice cream freezer for over an hour - while Yuffie was given blankets and hot chocolate to warm her up - Cloud was treated to a different kind of tending which involved a bed and a very warm blooded Nobody to cuddle with.
#50 - Wood
There was a small wooded area outside Radiant Garden that almost nobody dared to go, trees surrounded the little site and tall grass could hide anything from view - it was a good thing too because much to Cloud’s amusement, Axel was definitely up for anything.
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