01: -incognito-
No soul
Robust
All dust
We bust justice
To the man with no life
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Hood drawn, shadowed in the darkness he carried along with him, Demyx slipped from corridor to corridor, a fleeting silhouette too quick for light to mar. Though the boots he wore had hard rubber soles, he made no noise against the solid gray-white floors. It seemed the creatures called Shadows that dwelled in the darkest corners of the castle made more noise than he with their skittering claws scraping stone.
A brilliant flash of light, the rumbling of the irritated sky, and Demyx paused for a moment, tilting his head back until the top of his hood partially obscured his vision. "I'm coming, I'm coming," his words were but the merest of whispers, lost to the dim light beyond the comforting confines of his hood. He continued on, legs striding long to carry him as quickly as possibly without running and causing a ruckus - and then an entirely different sort of rumbling sounded in the room, echoing from the bare walls, freezing the ninth member of the thirteenth order dead in his tracks.
"And what do you think you are doing here?"
Slowly Demyx turned around, flashing a wry grin at the man who'd caught him though he knew his opposite would not see it. "Visiting."
"At these hours in my castle?"
"It's not yours, Marluxia. You are simply house sitting."
Blue eyes narrowed dangerously, trying and failing to pierce into the darkness shrouding the Nocturne's face.
Demyx just continued to smile carefully, unsettlingly, trying to unnerve an opponent who could not see the source of terror.
Marluxia tilted his head, his pink hair swishing lazily to the side. "Who are you?"
The number nine turned his back on number eleven, and raised a hand in what could be taken for a dismissive gesture if not for its stillness after it had ascended. "Just a Nobody, going to visit a Raison d'être." And darkness swallowed him whole.
The Assassin scowled, but could find no reason to pursue. "Foolish Nobody."
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A/N: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, nor am I making profit from this work of fiction. Nor do I own Persona 3 whose lyrics from the song Burn My Dread (Last Battle) appear at the start of this chapter.
I'm working on some random little drabbles and one-shots to try to break some writer's block I've had plaguing for a while, and doing so with some of my more familiar characters so I don't push myself too hard. You'll find little song lyrics of music I was listening to when writing the chapter and relate, even obtusely, to what I'm writing. So, hello again. I'll be back for a little while.