Ookami XIII

I don't believe I explained this previously, but the wolves do not speak English or any other human language. They talk in simple yips and growls, with the occasional bark (I read White Fang). When the humans speak, you should know, and when the wolves speak, you should know as well.

Have fun, or turn away now.

II: Cave Oblivion

"Xemases?" Roxas tried to pronounce. Xemnas shook his silver head.

"No, Xemnas. Repeat after myself, Xem-nas." He said. Roxas looked confused as he silently rolled the name on his pink tongue.

"Xamnes?" Roxas attempted again. Xemnas almost snarled before reminding himself that this was just a cub.

"What would you like to call me? Make it reasonable, please." Xemnas offered with a narrow of his eyes. Roxas was pensive before hopping up, without falling.

"Papa?" Roxas asked. Xemnas was thoroughly shocked and amazed at the audacity the small cub showed in calling a wolf (that he had just met and made a deal with) 'Papa'. Although Xemnas could understand the need for a father figure, for he had yearned for a father back when he was a cub as well, it was still unheard of to call an elder that one had not fully connected with 'Papa'.

So, he could slightly respect that.

"So be it. Until you can call me Xemnas and no longer." Roxas agreed excitedly. Xemnas then leaned back down and picked up the much smaller cub in his chops. Ensuring that the cub was secured, he ran off to his home. After a while he began to feel the weight on his jaws get heavier. He rolled his golden eyes (or as much as a wolf could). The cub was falling asleep, how convenient. Seeing the small opening ahead, he sped up and halted at the front. Poking his head in the opening, he slowly slid his body in carefully as to not disturb the sleeping cub in his mouth.

"Yo Xemnas! What's up?" A dirty-blonde wolf with denim blue eyes called.

The fool. Xemnas slowly placed the cub down on the stone ground and turned to face the idiot that almost disturbed his progress.

"Demyx! You are to be silenced now. Do you not see the sleeping cub?" Xemnas scolded. The wolf, called Demyx as it seemed, swished his dirty-blonde tail and cocked his head at the still slumbering Roxas.

"Uh, why is there a cub here anyway?" Demyx asked. Xemnas snorted.

"I am not as cold-hearted as you all believe. The cub was abandoned and seemed to possess potential for the Organization. His name is Roxas." Xemnas explained. Demyx nodded slightly before trotting to the cub. Nudging the small wolf, he waited to see the cub's reaction.

"Papa?" Bingo. Demyx smirked (or as much as he could) at Xemnas.

"He calls you 'Papa'?" He asked slyly. Xemnas sniffed haughtily.

"He can't pronounce my name. I told him to give me an alternative, and that was his answer. I'm only allowing it until he can pronounce my actual name." Xemnas said. Demyx smirked again and his tail swished a bit more.

"Of course you are, and before you know it, it'll grow on you." He taunted. Xemnas narrowed his eyes.

"Do not forget your place, Demyx. I am aware that the name has a possibility to attach itself, but I assure you that it will not happen." Xemnas sternly stated. Demyx smiled and walked away.

"I've got to tell Zexy!"

Xemnas growled and turned his attention back to the now-awake cub.

"Papa? Where are we?" Roxas asked curiously. Xemnas rose up and walked around the vast room of the cave.

"This is Cave Oblivion, your new home." Xemnas said. Roxas tried to focus his eyes in the dark, for his eyes weren't quite as accustomed to the darkness as Xemnas's.

"It's r'ly dark…" He said finally. Xemnas turned around abruptly and came nose to nose with the cub.

"Do you fear the darkness? Can you sleep at night knowing the darkness is always crawling over your huddled body?" Xemnas asked. Roxas whimpered and nodded slightly. Xemnas then stood back up and turned away.

"Well Roxas, it is a natural reaction. The darkness creeps, it stalks you. You can't feel at ease with the darkness, you can't rest easy surrounded by an eternal black. When you close your eyes, it's dark. It scares you, scars you…" Xemnas stated. Roxas walked towards him slowly and sat next to the elder wolf.

"I still don't like the dark, Papa…" Roxas said in response. Xemnas looked at him from the silvery fringes of long fur that hung in front of his eyes.

"Of course you don't. Everything fears the dark, especially humans. Humans despise the darkness. Yet, the damned creatures don't have to experience it like us of nature. They have their flaring puppets they call 'fire', and it chases away the darkness. You and I, we have to adjust to the consumption that encloses us, and we fear it as well. But, we also have the option to accept the dark. We can give in to the torture that encloses us every time we blink, every time we sleep, every time we live. To reject it, we are only acknowledging our fears.

"The fear of the darkness is slightly worse than any other fear. In example, the fear of 'fire'. Towards the correct circumstances, the fire can be put out and your fears are alleviated. Darkness, however, can not be put out as simple. As soon as you leave your conscience for just a few moments, you first see darkness, and you can't put it out. Yet, if you accept the darkness, like you'd accept anything else, then you find the darkness slowly easing off you, as if it decided you have feared enough. Do you understand?" Xemnas explained quite thoroughly. Roxas shook off the headache that arrived from the flurry of words.

"Yeah Papa, I think I did…" Roxas said. Xemnas lay down on his front paws and turned his head towards the blue-eyed cub.

"Remind yourself, every time you prepare for rest, to give in to the darkness. Your fears will slowly wither away from that point thereafter." Xemnas mumbled before easing into sleep. Roxas blinked and slowly padded towards the older wolf's body. He pressed his smaller figure to the elder's and curled up in the warmth that the other wolf exuded.

"Give in…to the dark…ness…"

END TWO

I don't know where Xemnas's speech came from, but I get the feeling that it came from Kingdom Hearts (the first one) before Sora was raped repeatedly (NOT literally, for if you beat the game you had to get touched by Ansem's heartless once, and every time you did, non-con stuff happened…). That speech that Ansem gave and when I went inside that creepy room that had the tablet with the information concerning darkness. The only reason I remember that room is because of the incredibly creepy music that played, the cool machinery, and the cryptic words from the tablet. Oh, and those really cool looking but kinda hard-to-beat Heartless, the tall ones with the zigzag swords (I think the Heartless were called Invisible).

XEMNAS IS THE BEST DAD EVER!