"You three, are worthless."
"Huh?"
Axel leaned his head back to see a glaring Saix. He, Demyx, and Marluxia were sitting lazily around the Grey Room. Axel was stretched out across on of the larger sofas, Demyx was sitting cross-legged on a shorter sofa with his sitar, and Marluxia in a chair with his legs hanging over an armrest.
"What'd you call us?" Axel asked.
"You three are worthless." Saix repeated. "You are supposed to be on a mission like the rest of the Organization. Not strolling around the Castle leisurely with ease."
"First of all, we're not strolling, we're sitting." Axel said. "Second, we would have been on a mission, if-"
"We had been assigned one." Marluxia concluded.
"Everyone was assigned a mission today." Saix said.
"If we were assigned one, we never heard of it." Axel stated.
"Not that we're complaining." Demyx added. "It's nice to have a br-" Demyx stopped mid-word as Saix glared darkly at him.
"There will be no talk of breaks." Saix darkly stated. "You three haven't completed a mission in two weeks. You need to complete a mission. Today."
"B…but X, er, Saix we-"
"Today!" Saix snapped at Demyx. Demyx flinched back, and hugged his sitar defensively.
"I…I was just going to say that we don't know what missions, there are." Demyx hesitantly said. Saix glared blankly at Demyx before turning his gaze away from his frightened expression.
"My, somebody needs to control their temper." Marluxia said.
"Way to go Saix. Yell at the guy who was only trying to inform you." Axel sarcastically said.
"Silence. Here." Saix dropped a sheet of paper over Axel that softly landed on his stomach. "These are the missions you may choose from. I don't care if you go alone or together, just complete one of those missions, and turn in a full report." A dark portal appeared behind him, and he stepped back into it, disappearing into the darkness.
"Direct isn't he?" Marluxia commented as he sat properly in his chair.
"Great. Now we have to do a mission." Axel said with annoyance as he glanced over the paper. Only three missions were listed.
"I hate doing missions." Demyx complained as he dismissed his sitar.
"That's because you don't like to do things that require physical movement." Marluxia said.
"No. I don't like being forced to do things. I don't like orders." Demyx corrected.
"You just like things to be easy." Axel said.
"Who doesn't. Anyway, what options do we have?" Demyx pushed Axel into a sitting position and sat down next to him, Marluxia sitting on Axel's other side.
"Let me see." Marluxia took the paper from Axel's hands and scanned it. "Looks like we have three options. Are we going solo, or together?"
"I'm not going alone." Demyx said.
"It's not safe for him to go alone." Axel said
"Fine, three on one." Marluxia said. "These are the options: One, Atlantica. We-"
"No." Axel cut in.
"You didn't let me finish."
"Hate water. Next."
"There's Neverland. We have to defeat a Tailwind."
"That world means flying, which means heights. Next." Demyx said.
"You three are picky. The only one left is Deep Jungle. 'This world is usually ignored, but some suspicious activity has been noticed. The objection is recon and observations.' What do you think of this one?"
"Recon? I like it." Demyx said.
"Never been to Deep Jungle before, I'll give it a chance." Axel said,
"Finally you guys agreed on something." Marluxia said. "Deep Jungle? Sounds like my kind of place."
"We're not going there to plant a garden, we're going there to do recon." Axel stated.
"I never said anything about planting a garden, I just want to look at some of the plants there. Maybe there are some I don't know about."
"No harm in taking a side trip, as long as we do the mission at the same time." Demyx said.
"Whatever. Just as long as we complete the mission. I don't feel like getting yelled at by Saix again." Axel said.
"Pffft, don't worry about X-face, we'll prove him we aren't worthless." Demyx said, and summoned a dark portal.
"Did you open that to the right place?" Axel asked.
"I hope so." Demyx said.
"That's not very reassuring." Axel said.
"One way to find out." Marluxia mentioned. He shoved Axel out of his seat, and he toppled into the portal.
"Marly!" Axel shouted as he disappeared into the portal.
"Was that really a smart thing to do?" Demyx asked. Marluxia shrugged.
"Probably not. But I just couldn't miss the opportunity." Marluxia got off the sofa, and followed after Axel. Demyx rolled his eyes, and followed after his friends.
AN: Hello again, and welcome to my next fanfic. So Deep Jungle, not a very common place to write about, so I thought I'd give it a chance. I know this chapter is short, but necessary. As I always say, every story starts off slow.
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts