Me: Okay…kind of late, isn't this…?
Fans: Heck yeah, what do you think?
Me: -winces- Yes, yes…well I'm dedicating this chapter to three people who have their birthday today; Brian, the webmaster of Chain of Hearts; my friends David, Daniel and Douglas' mother Mrs. Yang; and to my good friend Luciana, who's turning 14 today!
Peggy: What about me?! My birthday's tomorrow!!
Me: Yes, I know, so I'm going to write a chapter tomorrow. It's probably going to be short, but oh well. Happy Birthday to those three people! XD
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Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts, no matter how much I beg for it…
In a heartbeat, the group had been poofed away from their Destiny Islands to the front of a huge mansion. It was made mostly of white marble, and towered high above the group, standing with pride and royalty.
Kairi's mouth dropped to the floor. "This…is where we're having our sleepover?" she stuttered, taken aback with her eyes wide.
Isuzu smiled. "Yep. It's not my mine, but the owner said we could do anything we want with it." An evil gleam formed in her eye.
Riku stared at the authoress out of the corner of his eye. "And how much money did you pay the owner to get him to agree to your terms?" he asked suspiciously.
Isuzu's eyes widened innocently. "Money? Oh, I didn't pay him any money…" she smiled evilly.
Flashback—
Isuzu approached her friend Brian, who was playing Halo in his new mansion he had won in a drawing. "Hey Brian…can I borrow your mansion for a few days?" she asked sweetly.
"Why?" Brian looked up at her, pausing the game as he did so.
"Oh, I'm just planning a chaotic sleepover where I torture the participants with random activities until they go insane like my current status, and I need a big mansion to make the sleepover successful." Isuzu replied coolly.
Brian blinked a few times. "What would I get?"
Isuzu put her hand on her chin, pretending to be thinking for an idea. "My father brought home a lot of food products yesterday from China, Taiwan, and Japan. Perhaps you'd like that?" she smirked, knowing the answer he would give her.
Brian's eyes lit up. "Food, you say? Like dumplings and sushi and Beijing Roasted Duck?"
Isuzu grinned, knowing that the fish had been hooked. All she had to do was reel it in now. "Oh, there's much more Brian," she said, eyes gleaming.
"Where is all of this?" he asked, practically drooling.
"At my house, in a big box labeled 'For Brian'." Isuzu answered. Brian instantly jumped onto his bike and started towards her house, which was approximately 10 miles away.
"DO WHATEVER YOU WANT WITH THE MANSION!!!" Brian screamed to his friend as he rode off into the distance.
Isuzu smiled. "Gladly," she responded as she started the preparations.
End Flashback—
The whole group was looking at Isuzu in disbelief. "You bribed him…with FOOD?!" Riku practically screamed.
Isuzu grinned. "Yep. It was all too easy. Right now, he should be at my house munching down the food I prepared for him…" she held out her hand and a hologram of Brian greedily gobbling up food in a room full of food appeared. "Yep." Isuzu confirmed as she closed her hand into a fist, making the image disperse.
She looked around the awed faces surrounding her. "So, let's head in, shall we?" she said, whistling while heading towards the front door of the mansion. The others twitched before following the insane girl.
Inside, the floors, walls, stairs, and whatever more you can think of were made of marble, like the exterior. The rooms, though, were an assortment of fashions, some based on Japanese rooms, some designed funkily, and some rooms just like your regular old-fashioned cozy room. There were a lot more, but I'd rather not bore you with their descriptions.
Kairi ran inside a cozy room that was based on the color pink. "I love this room! I get this one!!" she instantly squealed. Isuzu smiled. "It's yours, then." She said kindly.
Selphie walked into a funky room. She nodded in satisfaction, then lay on the bed and started daydreaming, sighing from time to time.
Riku ran into a room that seemed to be based on heavy metal and was sort of funky, Sora skipped to a room based on his Keyblade, Tidus went into a room that looked sort of like a beach resort, and Wakka sprinted into a room designed on Blitzballs.
"Well, that sorts out the rooms." Isuzu said happily. "Now, everyone unpack, and meet me in the biggest living room downstairs." With that, she poofed away to who knows where in a puff of blue smoke.
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In half an hour, the group was downstairs in the largest living room as Isuzu had instructed, though it took them a while to find it. A few minutes after they had arrived, they heard the front door open and being slammed closed. "Is that Isuzu?" Kairi asked wonderingly.
"No, she uses her big entrances, remember?" Riku reminded her. "Well maybe she got tired of it." Sora responded. They found out soon enough who was correct.
11 cloaked figures trudged into the room, grumbling loudly. "Why do we have to come here?" one of them whined.
"Because, the 'authoress' blackmailed us into doing this, so shut up, Saix!" the one at the front shouted.
Isuzu suddenly appeared in a flash of bright fireworks and silver smoke behind the cloaked figures. "Yeah, as much as I'd like to play 'Guess-who-is-under-the-creepy-black-cloak-and-hood', I'd rather you guys take off your attire." She said coolly, glaring at the leader of the group. The authoress had changed into more…normal attire; she had a black t-shirt on that had a pattern of a silver flower on it, and wore khaki colored shorts.
"No! These uniforms are a part of us…they make us who we are!" the leader whimpered.
Isuzu rolled her eyes. "Fine, whatever, keep your stupid uniforms on, but at least take off your hoods!"
"But they make us look mysterious!"
The authoress glared intensely at him. "Take…off…your…hoods…." She hissed menacingly. Instantly, all the Organization members took off their hoods. Isuzu swept her gaze over all of them, taking attendance mentally. Xemnas, Xigbar, Xaldin, Zexion, Saix, Axel, Demyx, Luxord, Marluxia, Larxene, and Roxas were present.
"Where's Vexen and Lexaeus?" she inquired.
"Umm…Vexen stayed behind and said that he was on the verge of making a great discovery…and Lexaeus wouldn't stop reading this one manga. We couldn't get him to stop at all…it was kinda creepy." Axel admitted.
Isuzu nodded. "I understand Lexaeus' excuse. I've been very addicted to some mangas and animes before. As for Vexen…well, we all know he's obsessive anyways. It's actually better that he didn't come; he would've performed multiple experiments on all of us." The whole group shuddered at the very thought.
"Anyways, I've already set up the Organization members' rooms, so you guys just head on up; your number and 'code name' in the Organization will be painted on the door so you may locate your room easily. I've researched thoroughly on your likes and dislikes and I've created your rooms, hopefully, to your liking. Now go, and meet me in the largest Japanese styled room in five minutes." Said Isuzu briskly, and with that, she disappeared into the ground, white mist erupting around her.
The group stared at where the authoress was standing just a second ago silently and awkwardly. "Er…I think we should head up now," Axel suggested meekly. The others in his association grunted in agreement and did as he said, piling out of the room to find their rooms.
When they were gone, Sora blinked, and looked around him; all his friends were staring at him expectantly, waiting for their leader to give them an order. "Um…then, I guess, we should go and try to find the room Isuzu was talking about?" he mumbled. His companions nodded and murmured in agreement, and followed the Keyblade master out of the room.
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Isuzu looked around the people in the room. "Is this everyone?" she asked, raising an eyebrow. Then, without waiting for an answer, she jumped off the table she was sitting on. "Good," she said, mostly to herself. "Now, we're going to play a little game," she said, eyes twinkling with something that looked like mischief. The girl snapped her fingers, and all the windows and doors instantly disappeared. Her guests looked around, shocked and alarmed.
"The rules are simple; all you have to do is stay in this room, and try not to go insane. If you attack anyone, you're considered insane, so don't be stupid and do that." Isuzu looked directly at Xemnas, who pouted. "If you do go insane, you lose. The game goes on until there's only one person remaining, and that person is declared the winner and will receive a nice little prize." Anyone who hadn't been very fond of playing this game instantly straightened up and looked at the authoress with more interest. Isuzu grinned at this. "And we begin…NOW!" As she said the last word, Isuzu poofed away in a cloud of red smoke.
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Isuzu reappeared in a dark room that appeared to be some sort of control or surveillance room. Screens that showed live footage of what was going on in the inescapable room decorated the walls of the dark place. The authoress spoke to some shadowed figures that were in the room. "So, when will you guys join us? It's really fun to participate in these…events."
One of them, a female, spoke. "Uh huh, you call these random activities…fun?" she interjected, typing away on a computer, obviously busy.
Isuzu answered enthusiastically. "Yep, that's what I said, fun!" she beamed at her friend, who turned around to look at her. After a while, the figure sighed, going back to her work.
"Well, I'm going to go prepare some dinner for all those people," another female piped up. As she stepped into the light, she revealed herself to be Lisa, a girl with shoulder length, dark brown hair with purple highlights. She wore a brown tank top with a white skirt, and black flip flops. She paused for a second. "Peggy, come help me!" she turned around and dragged a very unexcited Peggy out of a chair.
"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" Peggy moaned, obviously against the idea. "I don't want tooooooooooo!" she whined, although she made no attempt to escape Lisa's grasp. Peggy had medium length black hair with blue tips that resembled Isuzu's silver ones, and she had on a dark blue blouse with lightly colored, ruffled shorts and tennis shoes.
"Dinner?" a male's voice piped up. A noise that sounded like someone licking their lips loudly was heard. "I'll gladly take your place, Peggy, if it involves food." The figure spoke, eyes gleaming greedily in the darkness. Isuzu instantly strode over and whacked him upside the head, muttering about how life for him was hopeless and he shouldn't even try to live.
Peggy stopped whining, and spoke quickly. "Um, actually, I'll go with Lisa. Yeah…because we don't want any more food shortages." She mumbled the last part mainly to herself, and with that, she and Lisa snapped their fingers and left in a poof of blue and purple smoke.
The first figure who had glared at Isuzu earlier spoke, coughing. "They really should work on that," she managed to choke out. Isuzu nodded in agreement, unable to speak because she was also having a fit of coughs. After a few moments, Isuzu recovered and left in a poof of red smoke that, fortunately, did not make either of the remaining people in the room choke in any way.
"Let's get to work now, shall we…?" the girl said evilly, staring at the screens on the walls. Now THIS…was going to be fun.
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Back in the room where the game was being held, everyone was pretty much acting normally; Kairi was having a conversation with Selphie; Wakka was talking with Tidus and Riku; Saix was chatting with Xigbar; and similar situations were happening around the room.
Of course, being locked up in a room after a while could…affect your mind, and eventually, after an hour or so, Sora got bored of listening to Roxas talk about some times he almost died, and he decided to venture over to Xemnas. He thought that he could smell a cookie on the man.
Xemnas, of course, was leaning in a corner, sulking that he couldn't use his red lightsaber things. His mother had given them to him as a Christmas present, for god's sake! Angry tears welled up in the silver haired nobody's eyes. To not be able to use them…it was horrible…!
Suddenly, he felt a tug on his cloak. When he looked down, he found the Keyblade master smiling at him with innocent eyes. "Cookie," the boy said.
"I don't have any cookies," grumbled Xemnas. Sora, though, just wouldn't give up. He kept tugging on the Organization leader's cloak, determined to get his cookie. Xemnas, on the other hand, became irritated. "I said, I don't have any cookies." He raised his voice. Even so, Sora wouldn't have no for an answer. He continued tugging, and even started jumping up and down. Xemnas finally lost his temper.
"I DON'T HAVE ANY FREAKIN' COOKIES!!!" he shouted, and took out his lightsabers, losing all control. Just as he was about to leap towards the spiky-haired boy he so very much hated, Xemnas disappeared in a small cloud of silver smoke. Sora blinked, and picked up the cookie that was left behind—the cookie that Isuzu had hid in Xemnas' cloak right before the game started.
Everyone in the room stared at the dispersing cloud of smoke. Finally, Tidus cracked. "OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO D--" Tidus suddenly disappeared in the same fashion Xemnas did.
Axel looked around timidly. "Where…did they go?" he whimpered. Fear was rising in his heart…er, inside of him. After a few seconds, he just couldn't control it anymore, and started running around the room, hands on his head and screaming his butt off. "WHERE DID THEY GO? OH MY LORD WHERE DID THEY GO WHERE DID THEY GO WHE--" Axel disappeared, too.
Everyone in the room was scared now….VERY scared. Apparently, if you lose, you disappear to who knows where. This thought made everyone uneasy, and they all became silent, trying not to go insane like the last three did.
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Isuzu sat in a smaller room that was very plain; it had white walls and a white carpet, with no furniture and no ways out, like the room she had left her guests in. She checked her watch; a little more than an hour passed. The controllers should be sending some people now…
Just at Isuzu had this thought, Xemnas appeared in midair in front of her, landing with a thud on the floor. The authoress had to stifle a laugh. She'd never had thought that XEMNAS would be the first one to become insane. She spotted that his lightsabers were drawn, though, and quickly realized that he had attacked someone.
"Who'd you attack?" Isuzu asked. "No, wait, don't tell me—Sora." Xemnas nodded glumly, then sat up. "Meh, I guess the cookie thing worked, then." The girl said cheerfully. Xemnas gaped at her.
"You—"
"Yep."
"I really had—"
"Uh huh."
"And you attached it—"
"Mmhmm."
"And you knew—"
Isuzu glared at him. "How many times do I have to say it? Yes, I attached a cookie to you, yes, I knew Sora would try to get it considering his sharp nose for cookies, and yes, I knew you would attack him because he was going to pester you so much. Happy?"
Xemnas opened and closed his mouth several times, as if trying to find something to say. His expression turned from surprise to anger. The authoress raised an eyebrow at this. "Do you wish for your death?" she asked coolly. Xemnas lowered his head in defeat, muttering something about telling his mother.
Just then, Tidus appeared on the right of Isuzu, and after a few seconds, Axel came, appearing next to Tidus. Both were screaming their head off about random things. Isuzu twitched. "Shut UP, will ya?" she growled. Tidus and Axel instantly shut up.
"We're…we're not dead!" Tidus said in awe, looking around.
Isuzu rolled her eyes. "What, you think that I'd kill anyone who loses the game?" Tidus nodded. "Ch, I'm not THAT mean." Isuzu looked offended. "If you lose the game, you're instantly transported to this room, where we play games and socialize!" she smiled.
All of a sudden, Xaldin and Xigbar appeared behind Xemnas, wrestling each other on the ground and insulting each other, apparently not noticing that they had already lost. Axel blinked. "Hey, guys…?" he called hesitantly.
The two Organization members looked up. "Oh…so I guess we lost." Xigbar said sheepishly. The pair got off the ground, sitting next to the rest of the group and giving glares at each other.
"Well then, let's play a game, shall we?" Isuzu asked cheerfully, pulling out a deck of cards from behind her back.
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Back with the rest of the group…
Everyone was pretty much silent in the room, all scared out of their wits about where their friends could have gone after they lost. After a while, though, things began getting boring, and so Luxord decided to play a game with Larxene. He edged towards her until he was standing right next to her.
"Hey, Larxene, want to play poker with me?" he whispered.
"No." she replied curtly. "Your cards always listen to you, and the game is basically rigged so that you'll win."
"Fine, then I won't rig it…pleaaaaase?" he begged with puppy-dog eyes.
Larxene twitched. Must…resist…eyes…… "N-no…" she stuttered, losing slowly to the power of the deadly puppy-dog eyes.
"Pleeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase? With a cherry on top?"
Oh god…noooo!!! Must not…lose…to eyes! AUGH!!! "Okay, Luxord." Larxene sighed.
"YIPPIE!!!"
5 minutes later…
"I WIN AGAIN!!! YAY!!!" Luxord screamed for about the 6th time. Larxene twitched, wondering how she ever got herself into this mess.
"Luxord…you better not be cheating and rigging this, or you're dead." She growled. The gambler, in return, sweatdropped, and laughed sheepishly.
"Ehehehehehe…"
"LUXORD, I'M GONNA KILL YOU!!!"
Larxene whipped out her throwing knives and began to fling them towards her fellow Organization member that she hated so much right now. Luxord, meanwhile, ran around in circles, screaming. Both of them disappeared right before the Savage Nymph's weapons hit their target.
Everyone left in the room twitched. Apparently Larxene had something against cheaters. Well, then again, who wouldn't?
Meanwhile, Wakka was sitting next to Selphie, who kept sighing continuously every 2 seconds, staring into space. Wakka tried desperately to ignore her, but, unfortunately, failed.
"I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!! LET ME OUT!! LET ME OUT!!" Wakka banged his head on the wall, screaming. He disappeared after a few moments of doing this.
Selphie merely looked at where Wakka was a second before. "Hnnn?" she smiled, and went back to daydreaming, although this time she looked at where Marluxia was standing nervously.
Sora, Kairi, and Saix had been approaching sneakily towards the pink haired man, all the while staring evilly and greedily at him. Marluxia was really starting to panic now; he had experienced something like this before, and he knew what they wanted from him. The three had now completely surrounded him, drooling massively. Saix spoke up. "Hey Marluxy…" –Marluxia cringed—"can we look at your hair…for just a minute?" he licked his lips.
Marluxia had almost completely lost his head now. "No…" he tried to sound determined, but his face showed fear. "You won't get it…you'll never get it…"
Kairi grinned. "Oh really?" she asked, pouncing. Marluxia dodged, running as fast as he could away from the crazy people. "DON'T LET THE STRAWBERRY FLAVORED HAIR GET AWAY!!!" Kairi screamed, running after him. Saix and Sora followed in pursuit.
"Nooooooo!!" the poor man sobbed, attempting to escape. Of course, when you have to stay in a room with no way out, you can't really escape anywhere. Sora leaped onto him, knocking him over, and started tearing out his hair and eating it. His accomplices did the same, all happily eating the delicious strawberry-flavored hair. Marluxia whimpered, backing away slowly. The three had finished their snack already, however, and wanted more.
"Heh heh heh…" Kairi chuckled evilly, advancing towards her prey…
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"Well, do you think they're qualified as insane?" the female dark figure asked, gesturing at Kairi, Sora, Saix, and a very frightened Marluxia.
"Yeah…I'd label them insane, going after his hair like that. And EATING it too…" the male dark figure replied, shuddering. "The strawberry hair, too—he's way insane."
"Then…they've lost." The girl pressed a button on her keyboard as she said the last word.
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Marluxia was begging the three to stop now. "Please!" he sobbed, "Don't eat my hair! It's precious to me!" As if his pleas were being answered, all four of them disappeared into oblivion.
Roxas blinked. "IT'S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!!!" he suddenly screamed, whipping out huge jars of peanut better and jelly out of nowhere, and flinging the contents all over the room. Unfortunately, a splat landed in Demyx's hair.
"OH MY GOD!!! DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY YEARS IT TOOK ME TO OBTAIN THIS BEAUTIFUL SHAPE AND TEXTURE?!?!" screamed Demyx, clawing at his hair and trying to get the sticky substance out.
"Shut UP!!" Riku screamed, trying to get jelly out of his eyes. "I'VE HAD TO WEAR A BLINDFOLD ON FOR A VERY FREAKING LONG TIME, AND NOW SOMEONE RUBS JELLY IN MY EYES. HOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL?!?!"
"Well, at least you can lie now." Zexion said quietly, not looking up the book he was reading. The chaos went on for a while until the three of them finally disappeared. Zexion breathed a sigh of relief, glad that he could finally read his book in peace. He took a quick glance around the room, and found that only Selphie was left besides him. Wanting to win the game, the young man walked over to her, a plan already formed in his mind. He isn't called the cloaked schemer for nothing, people.
Selphie snapped out of her daydreaming state, and looked at him. "Yes?" she asked politely.
"No." He replied. Selphie looked confused.
"What?" she asked. Zexion smirked. This was going to be easier than he thought.
"No, why." He responded.
"Why what?" she was genuinely puzzled. What the heck was he talking about?
"What who." He said.
"Who what?"
"Who how what."
"Is that a Kung Fu attack?"
"Sorry, I don't speak English." Zexion replied coolly.
"But we are speaking English." Selphie was getting a bit dizzy now. Zexion responded this time with some Japanese. "I don't speak Japanese." Said Selphie.
"You just said you did." Zexion shot back.
"No I didn't, that was you."
Zexion decided to sacrifice some of his pride to win this game. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" he laughed sarcastically and without emotion.
Selphie twitched. "What's so funny?"
"Huh?"
"…you laughed. And I asked what was so funny."
"No I didn't. You did."
Selphie finally cracked. "I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU BUT THIS IS REALLY CONFUSING AND GETTING ON MY NERVES!!!" screeched the normally calm island girl. She took out her jump rope and grinned insanely at Zexion, who just stood there reading his book. Selphie leaped towards the calm man, but disappeared like the rest of the group right before she made contact.
Zexion hadn't looked up from his book at all. "Game…over." he muttered as he snapped the book shut and exited the room through a wooden door that had magically appeared.
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Me: Nice long chappie! Dang it took me forever to write, though. I'm really sorry, but I had to test out of Geometry class to basically skip to the next level and I just took the test today! The test basically equals a final for the whole year, so I had to study really hard.
Fans: Yeesh, math's more important than writing your fanfiction?
Me: …yes, I'd say it is.
Fans: -sob- YOU'RE MEAN!!!
Me: -twitch- Well, happy birthday again! .
Peggy: Check in tomorrow for a chapter dedicated to ME!!! Bye now!
