Pt. 1 – THE THING

"Hey Zexion, What'cha reading'?" I asked.

"A book." he grumbled back at me. I really should've taken this as a hint that he did want to talk, but something possessed me to go on anyways.

"What book?" I said hopefully.

"Dictionary." I'm not sure, but I think he said this so I would stop bothering him. Maybe not, his next words were,

"Do you like books?"

"Only when I find a good one." I said

"WELL DUH," he exclaimed, "who wants to read a boring book?"

"Well you have a point there mister-grumpykins."

"I told you never to call me that Xhey." He said sinking back into his book

"Sorry Zexy." I said pronouncing the 'z' as an 's' to see if he was listening. He narrowed his eyes into his book trying to ignore me. He was listening. I decided to take it upon myself to keep talking to the schemer.

"So Zexion," I said, he arched his eyebrows and sighed

"I guess as long as you're here, I won't be able to read my book so I might as well talk.

"YAY!" I said, obviously pissing him off. I smiled mischievously and said

"Now that you have agreed to talk with me you can't turn back."

"Oh crap what did I do?"

"HAHA, anyways Zexion, tell me about yourself." I said very therapist-like.

"Well, someone went crazy, I died, and here I am."

"Well, considering that wasn't a total lie, I'd say you were a pretty stable person."

"Haha, you're hilarious."

"I try."

We talked in there for hours about what, I can't say because it would only be a guess. While laughing, Zexion glanced at the clock.

"HAVE WE REALLY BEEN TALKING THAT LONG?!" he asked shocked.

"I guess we have." I said calmly

"Xhey, I have a mission tomorrow, and if I miss one again, Xemnas will go ape shit, and call Kingdom Hearts on my ass, get what I'm saying?"

"Zexion why didn't you tell me this? I could've warned you and you could've gotten to sleep on time."

"It didn't occur to me that you'd be so interesting."

"R-Really I am? B-Because I-I didn't think that… uh…." DAMMIT I blanked; people almost NEVER get compliments from Zexion so of course I would be caught by surprise.

"Haha, I gotcha didn't I?" he said teasingly.

"Yeah, you did. Well of to bed with you." Zexion's face looked scared.

"What's wrong Zexion?"

"Well for the past few nights, there has been this thing in my room, I don't know what it wants but it won't leave me alone, and it's really freaking me out just watching me when I sleep."

"Really? What do you think it is?"

"Well at first I thought it was one of the other members trying to freak me out. But then I heard its voice, it didn't sound familiar, and the darkness emitting from it didn't smell like any of the members."

"Well what should we do about it?"

"W-Well um… could you come with me?"

"….Wait what?"

"Could you come with me? Just to see if it shows up?"

"Well, uh, I have no missions tomorrow so, sure."

"Thank you so much." I could tell Zexion was really scared by this thing that was showing up. I felt bad for him that hanging out with me gave him emotions, if we weren't friends, he probably wouldn't be in this situation. We walked down the stairs 5 floors to Zexion's room which was engraved with the numerals IV and the words

'The Cloaked Schemer' after it. He opened the door to his dimly-lit room. The couch –where I would be sleeping- was white and was very neatly arranged with pillows all around it unlike my room there was nothing on the floor and you could actually se where his closet was.

"Well, I guess we should just get to bed then."

"Yup."

"Night."

"G' night." I could hear his breathing in the silence of the room. I closed my eyes and almost immediately fell asleep. THUNK I woke up on the ground in pain.

"Ughh." I gathered myself up ready to climb back onto the couch when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. It was a figure standing there, staring intently at Zexion.

"Z-Zexion?" I whispered never taking my eyes off of the creature.

"ZEXION?"

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaattttttt?" Came his sleepy reply.

"I think its here."

"What?" Actually listening.

"Its here."