"Being a nobody can be such a bore, Xemnas hasn't given us anything to do in weeks", Larxene complained as she reclined on a large couch that was stolen from one of the many worlds that had been destroyed by the nobodies. She was eating an apple that she had discovered in the back of the Organization 13's shared refrigerator and cringed after taking the first bite.
"Uukk, it tastes like crap!" Larxene said and quickly ran to the sink to spit it out and clean hear mouth out with water. Axel, who was sitting at the opposite end of the couch began snickering and put his hand over his mouth in vain hope that Larxene hadn't heard him. Of course she had and turned around, which caused Axel to look away and begin laughing harder.
"Shut up Axel!" Larxene threw that remaining part of the apple in his direction but missed as he quickly dodged it which caused it to hit the lower part of the wall in back of him.
"Jeezz clam down girl, what did the wall ever do to you?" Axel said as he put up his hands defensively and grinned. Larxene shook her head in an annoyed fashion.
"Why do you have to laugh at every little thing I do! I swear if I have to spend one more day with you I'm going to lose it! Larxene fumed. She was always an easy person to tick off but lately almost everything made her angry, especially if it involved Axel or Demyx. After weeks of doing pretty much absolutely nothing the members of the organization have slowly began to deteriorate mentally as they all suffered from boredom in its purest form. To prevent themselves from going completely insane, they had all developed a way to cope with the nothingness in their lives. Axel stayed occupied by annoying Larxene whenever he was given the chance, and Larxene cooped by yelling and throwing objects at the source of what was annoying her.
"Wait I have a question", Demyx suddenly entered the argument and spoke in exaggerated curiosity; putting his hand under his chin as if he was deeply analyzing the situation. He slowly began to point at Larxene. "How do you know what crap tastes like?" He could no longer keep on his serious expression and began smirking but remained in his questioning stance, pointing at Larxene. It did not take long for Larxene to reply.
"That's it! Somebody is going to die!" A shadow in the shape of Larxene suddenly appeared over Demyx and quickly began suffocating the blonde haired organization member. Demyx began making indistinguishable guttural noises as he attempted to push Larxene off of him with his feet. Axel watched the two blankly as he has many times before and slowly made his way over to the enraged organization member and struggled to get her away from her target. Finally he was successfully after he dragged the two across the carpet and Larxene finally let go, almost as out of breath as Demyx was but was clearly still angry.
"It seems that we, as an organization, can no longer stay together lest we destroy ourselves before we finish destroying others and their worlds", said a deep and gruff voice that came from behind the group of three, who now stopped their activities completely and turned around. The organization member was a little more than six feet tall and strongly built, with black dreadlocks hanging down the sides of his face and gave off a threatening demeanor despite showing little expression on his face. Demyx haphazardly backed up into Axel in fear and looked pathetically into the eyes of the bulky organization member who looked down at him momentarily then directed his attention at Axel. Axel did not seem at all fearful but more so curious as to how this man entered the room without making the slightest sound. His guess was that the argument between the two other organization members must of muffled it.
"Hey Xaldin, I didn't even hear you enter the room", Axel let go of Larxene and walk up to him. "Sorry if we bothered you or anything some people are just naturally loud and obnoxious", Axel sent a quick glance at Demyx and Larxene who responded with glares. Larxene crossed her arms and looked up at Axel.
"You better be talking about yourself and this idiot because you guys are the reason for my anger and misery", Larxene pointed at Demyx who avoided her accusations and pouted.
"Aww come on Larry, lighten up, you know we where just joking around with ya", Axel said as he shrugged his shoulders and put his hands in his pockets.
"How do I supposed to know when you're joking and when you're actually being serious when both of you go out of you're way to be total dufusses twenty four seven! You guys are the only people that I have had any social contact with for the past what? four? Five? Weeks? Seriously, I think you guys are lacking more than just hearts." Larxene was now almost just as loud as she had been a few moments ago and looked straight at Axel. This comment caused Axel to lose his calmness and he was now looking sternly back at her.
"Well gees, I'm sorry that someone as wonderful as yourself got stuck living with us losers and must deal with the horror of our existence on a daily basis, honestly I feel just as bad for you and wish I could leave and never see you again so your suffering can end, but that's not my choice now, is it?", Axel was now about a foot away from Larxene and both looked like they where about to kill each other.
"Oh yeah? Well I'm sorry that I'm not stupid enough to find the idiotic things that come out of your mouth funny and bring myself down to your level of intelligence! If you can even call it that!"
"Hmm, well you know what I think?" Axel pointed at his skull and spoke in a cruel whisper, "I think you should be the leader of the nobodies, the heartless, and Organization 13, because I don't think you ever had a heart to begin with, which is why you're better than all of us!" Axel raised his arms into the air and looked around the room as if he where speaking to an audience, "You where meant to be a nobody!"
Larxene was now clenching her teeth together so forcefully that one could have easily imagined them breaking. Although she was now more enraged than one thought possible, water began to build up behind her eyes and she screamed words that where undecipherable and launched herself at Axel with her blade in hand.
"Stop!" Xaldin barked and grabbed hold of both Larxene and Axel in separate hands and then pushed them both to opposite sides of the floor. He looked down at both of them and a mixture of frustration and disappointment could be seen on his face. He took a few steps back and crossed his arms across his chest, looking down as if in thought for a moment and then directed his attention back at the two disheveled organization members.
"You are a nobody" Xaldin pointed at Axel and then walked up to Larxene.
"You are a nobody" Xaldin pointed to Larxene then walked away so he was directly in between the two.
"Nobodies…have no reason feel such emotions over petty quarrels between themselves over things concerning their past lives, and it is foolish to attempt to frustrate our own kind or feel resentment over what we stand for". Xaldin slowly paced over to the couch that the other members where previously occupying and sat down on it, but did not lounge against it. He breathed in a deep sigh and rubbed his fingers over his temples, seemingly concentrated at the bluish grey carpet below him.
Demyx watched Xaldin anxiously as he contemplated the quickest and safest way to escape through the door before anybody noticed. Demyx did not like many of the organization members due to their cold and often aggressive mannerisms which Xaldin seemed to flaunt persistently and skillfully. He did not like this guy one bit, and spent much of his free time trying to track down his present location so he can do his best to avoid him. Demyx at least felt some comfort around the less serious members such as Axel and Larxene because they acted almost as if they still had hearts and on many occasions shared their emotions with the rest of the group, although this usually occurred only when they where agitated by something. The rare times Xaldin ever exposed anything that can be labeled an emotion was either when the other members where disturbing him in some way, or when he was assigned a new world to weaken and eventually destroy. None of the group members ever spotted even the slightest sight of joy on his face, but Demyx strongly believed that he found a secret happiness when fighting others.
The room stayed silent for a good amount of minutes after Xaldin's outburst with nobody moving from where they where situated. The silence was not an awkward one but more of a calming indifference as everybody seemed to be lost in their own thoughts. Demyx's focus was now off Xaldin and concentrated on how he could end the plight of boredom that had been present the last few weeks. Suddenly an idea came to him that had been lingering in the back of his mind for the past few days but he had only now just considered putting it into action.
"Ok so here's my plan", Demyx stood up while saying this and turned toward the other three and pointing his index finger in the air "I think we should go find Xemnas and then ask him what's taking him so long with whatever he's doing, then he'll feel bad for making us wait so long and give us something to do". Demyx now had a cheery smile on his face and felt quite satisfied with his idea, although the others stared at him blankly. Axel covered his face with his hand.
"Okayyyy, that would be a good idea if we weren't in a giant castle and had absolutely no idea where this guy went, and he specifically told us not to disturb or go searching for him" Axel put his hands at his sides and looked directly at Demyx but did not do so in a way that would seem insulting but more so sympathetic. This idea had actually been occupying Axels thoughts for at least a week now and on several occasions thought of searching for Xemnas himself but had feared the possible consequences. Something about that guy was particularly creepy and one could only imagine what he would do to an organization member who disobeyed his orders. Still, Axel couldn't help but to be curious as to what Xamnas was doing exactly and if he had any alternate intensions.
"Yeah that is an issue, but a minor one. I mean, we haven't seen this guy in weeks and did he really expect us to wait this long? Wait? What if he doesn't even come back?" Demyx spoke his last sentence slightly panicked and began to look nervous, eyeing the walls of the room as if they where slowly closing in one him. "Why would a guy like Xamnas tell us to wait in some creepy, possibly haunted castle, for a number of weeks and not tell us anything about his plans anddddd…" Demyx's voice became obnoxiously louder with each word he spoke "expect us not to become suspicious of his big plan while we have nothing to do… or eat!" Demyx slouched with his arms dangling in front of him and looked pitifully at the other members, trying to read their faces. There was a long moment of silence until Axel spoke.
"Although I highly doubt that this castle is haunted I've never really trusted that Xemnas guy" Axel began to slowly pace around the group, "I think it's weird that he refused to tell us anything about what he intends to do and that he doesn't want us hanging around, almost like he's hiding something from us". Axel continued to pace slowly around the room and suddenly but sophisticatedly came to a stop. "Do you guys… think he's planning against us? Like maybe were just in the way and he's planning on getting rid of us eventually". Axel looked directly at the other three as he asked this.
"I guess it possible, considering that he is the most powerful of all the organization members and seems to lack both personality and emotion", Larxene answered nonchalantly. "I don't think he cares much about our well being, or even our existence for that matter". Larxene spoke almost as if she was annoyed by the fact, but her face showed little emotion.
"Well he's not really the huggy type and he kinda isn't the talky type either, well unless it's about the power of darkness, or taking other peoples hearts, or when he yelled at me when I borrowed that really cool white and black cloak he owns and used some of his grey dye and pretended I was him". Demyx rested his head in his hands and began to smile almost dreamily, looking up at nothing in particular. "I had so much fun that day, and everybody totally fell for it when I started attacking those people and told them I was Xemnas, the one guy pleaded for me to stop attacking their town and even threatened me because he thought I was Xemnas", Demyx had a dorky looking smile on his face, but suddenly changed his expression to disappointment, "Then Xemnas came and ruined everything and boy did he look mad, especially when he found out that I spilt ice cream all over his cloak when I bought some at that Hollow Bastion place". Axel gave him a perplexed look.
"Yeah, what made you think that doing that was a good idea anyway?" Axel asked in a confused tone. Demyx shrugged and answered nonchalantly.
"Boredom can make you do crazy things"
The main hallway of the castle seemed like it could stretch on for miles and the large walls supported gigantic windows that where made of metal and stained glass. Each window featured the objects, individuals, and elements of each world that the organization had completely taken over, the pictures representing the true nature and individualism of each separate world. Neither sun nor moonlight shined through the colored glass since the castle itself existed in a realm of darkness that was unapproachable by means of ordinary travel. The darkness itself existed in a different dimension that, under the laws of space and time, ordinarily could not connect with other dimensions, although Xemnas held the power to somehow make it possible. Thoughts like this did not occupy the mind of the blonde haired man who walked down the hallways lazily while whistling the tune of a nameless song. He was once again bored and decided for the hundredth and something time to explore the castle which seemed as though it could go on for infinity.
Unlike his past adventures through the castle Demyx was motivated to find a particular room in the castle. He was alone on this quest because the other organization members had voted against searching for Xemnas or anything related to him in fear of disobeying his orders. They had instead had retreated into other more familiar parts of the castle deciding that spacing themselves from each other would be in their best interests and prevent any further arguing. No official rooms where assigned to the organization members but throughout the weeks of waiting in the castle each member recognized specific areas of the castle of their own. Demyx frequented a large dark green room that had several large portraits of a few of the many rulers of the worlds that had once existed separately. For whatever reason the room contained many pillows and cushions that took up much of the floor space and was the first thing he noticed about the place. He enjoyed making giant pillow castles that he would stack up until they fell on him but his favorite activity was piling all the cushions into one spot and then running and jumping onto them which always managed to put him in a good mood.
Today was different though as he finally had decided to search for and then confront Xemnas about his absence and to figure out what his plan was all about. The one and most troubling fault in Demyx's plan was that Xemnas had not given him any indication as to where he could be found. Since Xemnas had planned on being left alone he most likely traveled to the opposite side of the castle where the majority of the members had not explored, thus would not be able to navigate themselves around easily. Because one could easily get lost in the many hallways, rooms, and stairways Demyx brought along a large ball of yarn that he had stolen from a peculiar striped cat when he had visited a place called Wonderland. He spotted a large statue made of marble and spun the yarn around the statues waist several times before tying a knot. The large figurine of what appeared to be an angry, cloaked; beast couldn't have weighed less than a ton and Demyx was sure that not even Xaldin would be able to knock it over. Shuddering slightly from the thought of the colossal organization member, Demyx quickly left the statue and began unraveling the yarn in his hands as he made his way through unfamiliar territory.
Upon entering the first room he noticed that this room seemed a lot less decorated than the last one and only consisted of a few pedestals that lay against both sides of the wall. A few of these supported vases that were the same shade of white as the walls and engraved on them were the names of various people whom Demyx did not recognize. He scratched his eye slightly as it suddenly felt irritated. Other pedestals supported nothing, and the white, grey, and black colored carpet that stretched the length of the room was the only other item in the room that Xemnas noticed. At the end of the room was a door that looked exactly like the many other doors he had seen throughout the castle. Seeing no other entrance he walked up to the door to open it and found himself in a room exactly like the one he exited; except there were two doors, one on each side of the wall reflecting each others appearance.
"Hmmm, I guess whoever made this castle didn't have much time to decorate", Demyx thought out loud. He decided to first approach the door to the left and opened it and once again found an almost completely identical room, but this time all the walls featured doors. He went over to the door to the right and found that this room also had a door on each wall. Demyx had anticipated having to deal with an issue like this but was surprised at how everything looked almost completely identical yet so complex all at once. He once again felt the urge to scratch his eye and decided to travel left and found that the next room had two doors and the room after that had three doors and then three doors again. Frustrating as it was Demyx believed that the relentless pattern of doors would eventually end and at least lead him somewhere that he would be able to remember. The large ball of yarn that he started with was now less than half of its original size and Demyx began to doubt if he would ever find Xemnas. He decided that once he had run out of yarn he would give up since without it he would get lost.
The sensation of a warm, furry, creature suddenly leaning up against Demyx's leg made him jump slightly only to notice a completely white cat with blue eyes staring back at him. It freaked him out a little because he had never really enjoyed the presence of cats, but without anything other than some yarn and the white walls surrounding him, the cat seemed to almost disappear into the floor and gave the appearance of floating blue eyes when it backed slightly away from him. The cat eyed the string on the ground and pawed at it momentarily then seemingly disappeared again when it turned its head suddenly. Demyx suddenly sneezed which startled him more that it startled the cat.
"So I guess you're the reason why I'm starting to feel like crap", Demyx stated and he sniffled and rubbed his face with both his hands. Momentarily he did feel some comfort since the cat was the only living thing he had seen in hours and seemed friendly enough but that all changed once the cat went into the other room and dragged something red in color.
"Meow", the cat stated as it pulled the mess of red yarn that probably went on for almost a mile toward Demyx, promptly setting it down next to his feet.
Demyx gaped at what was probably his only hope of finding his way out of the maze of rooms as his face contorted into an expression that could not be easily expressed. The cat seemed aware that the man in front of it would probably explode in a fit of rage in about five second and began to back away but still looked directly at Demyx. The calm quickly ended as Demyx let out a bizarre scream and pounced at the cat, ready maul the expectant creature. It quickly jumped out of the way and watched Deymx crash onto the floor.
"Grraaahhh!" Yelled Deymx as he looked up to see blue eyes. "IM GONNA KILL YOU!" he screamed as he sloppily lifted himself off the floor and launched himself toward the only blue thing he could see in the room. The cat seemed surprised at how quickly he retaliated as the hair on it's back stood and barley avoided the enraged man. Deymx did not fall this time and sprinted into the next room to see nothing. He looked around frantically when as flash of blue that could have only been the cat appeared in front of him for only a second. He chased the feline in a half crazed hysteria for a good twenty minutes and undoubtedly had no clue where it had taken him, his surroundings bearing no sign or progress or anything other than white walls and doors. The mixture of panic and rage had exhausted Demyx and he began to feel lightheaded and uncoordinated. He hadn't seen the cat in over five minutes but his allergies continued to torment him, his eyes watery and his nose congested, making it slightly difficult to breath. He wanted to give up but knew the cat was his only thing that could direct him out of the maze. The sound of scratching on the floor caught his attention and the cat sat nonchalantly against a particularly large stretch of wall, which he then noticed for the first time the cat's shadow that rested against the wall behind it. It was a strange phenomenon that Demyx paid little attention to and launched himself a final time toward the bothersome animal. What happened next did not make much sense as he lunged himself through the wall and ended up in dim hallway that only grew darker further down it. Demyx now knew that the cat had leaded him here purposefully and that it was either a friend or bringing him to his doom. Whatever the reason didn't matter at the moment, because this hallway obviously was hidden for a reason and wasn't supposed to be found.
(Twilight town, 3:00 A.M. Saturday morning) I awoke in a confused daze and realized that I had just woken up from a dream, noticing that it was still very early since the sky emitted no light that would indicate that the sun would be rising soon. My room feels uncomfortably warm and my face is all sweaty so I open my window halfway and feel a refreshing breeze. The wind smelled of dew and nature which I found to be extremely relaxing, and I rested my head back on my pillow. The sound of something lightly jumping unto my windowsill caught my attention and saw the silhouette of what I guessed could only be a cat sitting on the window pane. I looked at me with a fierce intensity and I felt and uncomfortable sensation in my chest. It slowly trotted onto my bed sheets and I could feel its paws resting on my legs which were under the sheets. I noticed something in its mouth that appeared disheveled and gave off a red tint in the moonlight, which made me think that it had killed a bird and for some reason brought it to me. I leaned up in my bed and shooed it away but it dropped whatever it was holding onto the foot of my bed, which I reluctantly examined. It turned out not to be a dead bird or dead anything but instead a tangled pile of red yarn that looked like it had been through hell and back. I picked it up with only two fingers and flung it on the floor, it landing on one of my shirts that I had been to lazy to hang up. The incident was, indeed, weird but I felt a wave of tiredness fall over me and decided that I would tell my friends what happened tomorrow. With that, I blacked out, with a excited smile on my face.