Chapter 4: Fighting alongside thy enemy

Another week later, Mixie and Ashix made their way once again into the mission room discussing what kind of heartless would make a better pet when their gazes landed on a familiar duo. Axel scowled at Mixie who merely smiled smugly back, Demyx sighed sadly in which Ashix looked at him quizzically.

"Man, why can't someone else do the mission for me?" The smaller bluenette shook her head slighty muttering a soft "Lazy." In which Demyx scratched the back of his head with a small laugh, Saix glaring at said blonde. "You will do as instructed." The berserker looked to the others. "This time Axel and Mixie will scout Traverse Town." Said two glared at each other. "Demyx and Ashix will scout Beast Castle." The blonde male's blue eyes lit up. "Sweet!" He grinned sheepishly at his new teammate's blank look.

Both teams made portals to leave to their areas. "Hurry up." Axel all but snarled at Mixie as he disappeared into the black void. "Good luck." Said girl lightly punched Ashix in the arm as she made her way to Axel's portal. "Huh?" Ashix's eyebrow rose a fraction in confusion as she turned to leave with the patently waiting Demyx.

"Ladies first." Said sitar player mock bowed as his teammate chuckled lightly at his antics. "Why, thank you." With that she quickly entered the vortex leaving Demyx to catch up.

Once at Beast's Castle, Ashix looked around in awe. "Wow…it's so pretty…"She murmured as Demyx appeared behind her. "Yeah, it's pretty creepy." The blonde shiver slightly as he to scanned the area. "Chicken." The smaller of the two replied flatly making the taller male flail around a bit. "I'm not scared! "I just hate strenuous work." Demyx sniffed, rather offended as they headed across the court yard into the castle itself, dispatching any heartless that appeared.

Inside Ashix paused once again to take everything in. "Such a lovely built structure." She hummed as they went from room to room, though she wasn't sure exactly what they were scouting. "Are we just here to look around or what?" She suddenly voiced which seemed to startle the blonde, seeing as neither of them had spoken for quite some time, which in itself was odd since the blonde always seemed to hyper.

"Ah, we are documenting what all is here and stuff." The bluenette gave him a flat look that said. 'Yeah that explains everything.' Demyx sighed as they once again entered to ball room. "So far it seems we have everything documented." Looking about the grand room, and idea began to form inside the blonde's head.

Suddenly, he reached out and grabbed one of Ashix's hands, tugging her to him. "w-what are you doing?" Shock flitted across her petite features as her silver eyes stared into his grinning face. "I thought we could have a bit of fun since we are done." Demyx chuckled lightly as he once again tugged her smaller frame towards the middle of the room, grasping her other hand in his own as he did so.

"Shall we?" He looked down into her startled expression. "W-What?" Ashix managed to squeak as the blonde laughed and spun them around the room. "Dance of course; we are in a ball room after all!" The small female's facial features flicker between embarrassment and discomfort, while the taller blonde's was care free and excited.

After a few twist, turns, and dips, Ashix was able to regain her bearings. "P-Please let go…" She managed to whimper. "I'm getting dizzy." Demyx slowly stopped their small tango and let go of her to rub the back of his neck. "Sorry, got too excited I guess." The girl merely blinked as her usual blank expression slid back onto her face. "We should be getting back." The male nodded and opened up a new portal. 'Why does my stomach feel as though it has butterflies in it…Ah, I will just have to ask Mixie.' Ashix smiled slightly as she followed suit.

Traverse Town had to be one of Mixie's favorite spots; she was so excited even though she had to be with that red headed pain in the ass. 'What's the deal with his attitude anyway? All I did was drop him, and it's been almost a month since then already!' She shook her head at the thought.

Axel had been moody since they had arrived, giving short clipped answers to her questions, or ignoring her entirely. The brunette decided that she didn't need Axel to finish the mission so she simply closed her eyes and teleported to the sandlot district, which had lots of heartless for her to fight. "Finally some action." She whispered as she teleported to the area.

"What?" Axel, after deciding he had tormented her long enough, turned around only to discover his teammate gone. "Damn that girl!" He snarled and shook his head, and began his search for Mixie throughout the different districts of the town.

"Such snoopy little things." Mixie murmured as she watched the heartless mil around the sandlot from atop of a building nearby. "I guess it's time to put them in their place." She grinned and teleported into the middle of the horde. "Okay, who's first?" She growled, drawing a fan like object from her sleeve, quickly flicking the item to where it formed a disc with sharp blades at the edges.

Neoshadows and different colored floating bombs lunged at her, making her suddenly duck and roll out of the way and throw her disc into the crowd, cutting down at least half of the weaker heartless. "Time for plan b then." Mixie muttered as they quickly surrounded her on all sides.

Catching the disc mid-air, she quickly morphed the disc into a razor chain. Though the weapon cut down the bunch by another half, the heartless pressed on. "This is ridiculous! Let's see if this finishes things." The weapon once again changed its shape, this time into a sword, whose blade was liquid fire. She thrust the blade into the ground, flames erupting from the ground incinerating all it touched. As the last of her opponents disappeared, her weapon turned back into the original fan she had produced earlier. "Well that was fun…Now off to find Sir pain in the ass." With that, Mixie teleported to the train station receiving a loud scolding from Axel in the process. The two failed to notice a hooded figure watching them from the shadows.