Well, I got another chapter done in a day again, but I don't think I would expect this to keep happening. XD Anyways, I hope you enjoy!! :D
(Aki helped me a little bit at the end there ;D haha)
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~ZEXION'S POV~
I was so shocked by what I saw, that I shut the door, waited a few seconds, and opened it back up. Nothing had changed. What I saw was Xemnas rubbing his temple, with Saix beside him, and then Vexen standing there muttering an apology. None of that is what had taken me by surprise though. No, that was Roxas, poor kid, only instead of looking like the Roxas we all know, he had blue skin and another arm sprouting out of his side, and tears streaming down his face.
"I swear, it was an accident," Vexen said, "It wasn't supposed to turn him blue!"
"Well," Xemnas said, "Was it supposed to make him grow another arm?"
"W-well...yes that was the general idea," Vexen muttered, not meeting Xemnas' eyes. Xemnas sighed.
"Vexen, what have I told you about making people drink potions?" Xemnas asked, waiting for a reply. Vexen mumbled unintelligibly.
"Vexen, speak up," Xemnas commanded.
"You said not to do it," he said, louder this time, looking down. I coughed to get Xemnas attention, and he looked up at me and Axel in the doorway.
"Oh, come in and have a seat..." he said, gesturing to the two chairs against the wall. He didn't look too thrilled to have more people to deal with at the moment. Axel stepped in first, in front of me, and we took our seats to watch the little scene with Vexen and Roxas, whose body was still wracking with sobs.
"Now back to what we were talking about. Vexen, no more experiments on the poor child. Please," Xemnas said. "And if you could, then try to fix the blue skin problem, and safely remove his third arm," Xemnas asked of Vexen, who looked ready to protest, but instead shut his mouth and nodded.
"Thank you. You may leave now, and remember: Don't experiment on or hurt Roxas anymore." Xemnas looked a little exhausted. He sighed and turned to Axel and I.
"What brings you two to my office this afternoon?" he asked, as Vexen walked out sulking, followed by a rather reluctant, still-crying Roxas.
"Don't look at me," Axel said, leaning back and putting his hands behind his head, which meant of course my hand was now hanging in the air. "Zexion is the one who has something to say to you. Not me."
Xemnas looked at me waiting for me to speak. "Well, what is it?" he prompted. I took a deep breath.
"W-well I-I..." I mumbled, looking away. Where had all my courage gone? Damn, Xemnas really was intimidating. I sighed and tried again.
"I know that you picked Axel's name out of the box, and I t-think that y-you shouldn't h-have d-done that..." I said. I had started out strong, but halfway through my sentence I'd made the mistake of meeting Xemnas eyes, which frightened me.
"Oh...well I see," Xemnas said, "I'm afraid without sufficient evidence, I am unable to do anything about your...er...claim."
"W-well," I said, "Larxene found Saix's name in the box, which means he's the one I should be handcuffed to... not...him," I said, gesturing to Axel, who had his eyes closed, and was snoring quietly.
"So," I continued, "that means, you must've picked Axel's name, but wanted to be with Saix instead, so you said his name, and by luck, no one picked Saix's name." When I finished, Xemnas just sat there. It was silent for a few seconds, until Saix, who had been so quiet this whole time that I'd almost forgotten he was there, spoke up.
"Xemnas, is that...true?" he asked, peering at Xemnas who replied just a little to fast to be believable.
"Of course not," Xemnas defended.
"Oh..." Saix said, looking just a little crestfallen. Xemnas looked back at me.
"I...I'm afraid that taking Larxene's word for truth is...not acceptable...so there's nothing I can do..."
"BUT I KNOW YOU DID IT!!!" I shouted. In all my excitement, I jumped up without thinking, which had jerked Axel's hand from behind his head, and woken him up. I swear I heard him snarl. He jerked his hand back to where it had been, causing me to stumble backwards and lose my balance. I fell to the side, missing the chair, and landing on the floor.
I stood up and brushed myself off with my free hand, taking extra caution not to accidentally move Axel's hand again. Xemnas spoke again, acting like nothing had happened.
"Well, there is no proof, so that is all now, and you are dismissed," he said, waving us off.
I sighed, and gently nudged Axel to reawaken him so we could leave. He grumbled, but got up, and opened a portal to his room.
We walked in and Axel sat down on his bed, meaning, of course, so did I. He yawned and looked over at me.
"Well, that went well, now didn't it?" he said, smirking.
"Yea, no thanks to you. You just slept the whole time," I said, not really caring if I sounded mean. He'd been no help whatsoever.
"Yea, I knew ol' Xemmy would never own up to doing that, and besides, I like being cuffed to you. It gives me someone to torture," he said, laughing at my angered expression.
"Oh, gee thanks, Axel. That means so much," I said sarcastically.
"Haha, anytime, buddy" he said, shoving me off the bed rather roughly. I fell off, only Axel hadn't realized that when I fell, it would pull him down too. He came down after me, and hit his head on his bedpost with a bang.
"Ouch, damn it!" he said, rubbing his head, still laying on the floor. He stood up abruptly jerking me up by my arm. I swear, my hand was going to come off eventually, and I'd just be left with a stub. Although I could always go to Vexen for an extra arm or hand.
"We're going to get me an ice pack. Let's go," he said, and he opened a portal to the kitchen, and pulled me through it. At first I thought Axel had made a mistake, and had taken us to the wrong room, because there was an atrocious noise. Once I took a look around though, I realized that we really were in the kitchen, and that the terrible noise was none other than Luxord and Xaldin.
Apparently, if the twenty or so empty bottles on the table were any clue, Luxord had somehow convinced Xaldin to be his drinking buddy, and they were both so drunk that they were singing really loud, and out of tune, and would no doubt be passed out in less than an hour. Maybe even a half hour...
"Ahhh, hurry up," Axel said, cringing at the noise. He dragged me to the freezer so fast, that I could barely move my legs fast enough to keep up with him. He opened it up, got an ice pack, and pressed it to to his forehead, where he already had a bruise appearing. He sighed in relief as the ice took effect in cooling his forehead.
"Ok, let's go back to my room now," he said, turning back to me. I sighed.
"Axel...can we please go back to my room?" I asked, hoping that maybe he'd be so distracted by his bruise that he would just agree. He laughed.
"You didn't seriously think I would agree to that just because I hit my head did you?" he asked. He clearly thought that if I had thought that then I was crazy.
"No, not really," I said, hanging my head. He was so hard to get along with. Yet I found that even after only a few hours of being handcuffed to him, his obnoxious behavior and violence didn't bother me as much as it had before. That's not to say I thought he was nice, or easy to get along with, but he wasn't as obnoxious as he had been before...
"Well, I suppose it couldn't hurt if we went to your room for a while," he said. I was shocked.
"Really? Well...thanks!"
"Yea... now hurry up," he said, and he started walking up the stairs to my room. Finally we made it down the hall, and were standing outside my door. I opened the door, and took a step in when everything went black. Then everything became clear again, and I was in Axel's room. What just happened? It took a few seconds for me to register everything, but when I did, I realized that Axel had opened a portal to his room right as I was about to go in my room, and to think I said he wasn't as obnoxious as before.
Hmm, well I hope you liked it! :D Revieeeew~! haha.
