Demyx sighed as he moved some of his more precious belongings, and anything flammable to safer locations. If he left them were they were, they wouldn't stay in one piece for very long. Everything had been decided at that morning's meeting, once Xemnas had discovered Axel had burned his room, and most of his furniture, to charred dust after losing yet another bet to Luxord. Responsibility for housing Axel until his room could be fixed was almost instantly dumped on Demyx's shoulders. This wasn't because he was the most capable, or the best choice, or even got along with Axel. No, it was because he was the one least likely to start an argument with Axel and get his room burned down too. Once all his belongings, especially books and his sitar, were firmly out of fire's reach, Demyx lay down on his bed and exhaled noisily in annoyance. A sharp knock came from the door and, trying not to look too upset, Demyx got up and answered it. Axel stood there with a small bag of essentials, looking vaguely off to one side as though irritated and shoved past Demyx into the room.
"Not bad" Axel concluded after a brief look round "where do I sleep?"
Demyx hadn't considered this and, knowing he'd hit himself for it later, pointed to his own bed. He'd just have to sleep on the floor. Axel dumped his bag on the end of the bed and headed for Demyx's bathroom. When he reached the door he turned round.
"I'm going to have a bath, and I'm warning you now, don't disturb me."
Demyx nodded, not wanting his bathroom destroyed on the first day. He winced slightly as the door slammed shut and hoped Axel hadn't scratched the paintwork. Unlike the fire wielder, Demyx had never had to have his room remade in all his time with the organisation and did not plan on starting now. Axel however, was constantly damaging his room, but it had never been this bad before. Maybe it was his sadistic nature that made him like destroying things.
Demyx mentally listed all the things he'd moved out of harms was, making sure he'd gotten everything. His deodorant! That was flammable, and in the bathroom with the biggest source of fire in the building! Demyx crept over to the bathroom door and eased it open. None of the bathroom doors had locks in castle oblivion. All of the bathrooms were joined to each bedroom, and if anyone really wanted to get into a bathroom for any reason, they could just use a dark portal. No real point of having locks then was there? The bedroom doors had locks, but that was more for show than anything else.
Demyx peered round the door, opening it wide enough to slip through and reached towards the cabinet. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw something that made him stop suddenly and look in the direction of the bath. Axel was having a bath, as he said he would, but the top layer of the bath was covered in a white foam. Axel, the feared flames of the organisation, was having a bubble bath. The idea seemed so laughable in Demyx's head that he did just that and laughed.
"Bubble baths Axel?"
Axel's eyes snapped open and he glared at Demyx, growling.
"Demyx, get out!"
Before Demyx had time to react properly, a glowing fireball was racing in his direction. He yelped and jumped backwards out of the bathroom, spinning to close the door. Again he wasn't fast enough and had to bit his lip to keep from yelling out when the fireball grazed against his upper arm. Axel didn't seem to notice, having gone back to relaxing. Demyx finished closing the door, deciding to collect the deodorant later. He sat on the bed and inspected his arm where he'd been hit. It was then, when all he could distinguish was a large red blur, he realised that his eyes were filled with tears and that his arm burnt in pain. Wiping away his tears and putting on his cloak, wincing and hissing in pain a few times before he settled putting it on one handed. He knew he had to see Vexen. He had to get this healed before anyone noticed. If Xemnas found out Axel had injured him then Axel would be kicked out of Demyx's room and have to go with someone else, and that would just result in more destroyed rooms and arguments and Demyx really wanted to keep the peace.