Hello everyone I'm back! I know, I know it's been a long time since my last chapter but you can't blame me, blame my stupid computer that's almost 10 years old! Sheesh it has more problems than….uh well I was never good with comparisons. Anyways I hope you are all looking forwards to another chapter of "To Be Somebody You Must Be a Nobody."
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Chapter 4: Traitors
Xhomast shivered.
"Larxene has been killed." Demyx said out of the blue, in the midst of a conversation with Xhomast.
"Heh?" Xhomast said, confused. They had just been talking about guitars and sitars when Demyx had suddenly brought this up, "Did you say that Larxene is dead? How do you kno- hey is that why I felt that odd shiver?! Whoa I can sense when a member dies?! That's awesome…but uh…also sad, I think."
Demyx smiled, "Its ok, I understand if you're not saddened. First of all, we don't have hearts and second, Larxene wasn't the most loved of the gang."
Xhomast smiled, "I actually didn't mind her. In fact I think I'm the only one on earth who could stand her."
"I give you props man, it takes one heck of a dude to be able to stand her, especially when she goes on about Zexion." Demyx rolled his eyes while playing a few strings on his sitar.
Xhomast jerked his head up, "Zexion? What do you mean when you say she goes on about Zexion?" Xhomast had a thought in his head, sure Lixicaa hated Larxene, but enough to kill her? Heck, who was he kidding, of course, she completely despises her, "Larxene didn't happen to "like" Zexion did she?"
Demyx nodded, "Although we can really feel love or infatuation, whatever you want to call it."
Xhomast smacked his fist into his palm, "Hey Demyx, I'm new here, so I don't know how the whole teleportation thing works, but if I center on a certain spot can I teleport there?"
Demyx nodded, "Dude, why so serious? You just joined the gang, calm down and relax."
Xhomast sighed, "I guess you're right, besides I'm sure I'm just thinking crazy things."
Demyx shrugged, "I do that all the time don't worry about it."
Xhomast smiled and grabbed a hold of a nearby sitar in Demyx's room, sat down in front and watched him play, taking it in, learning how to play it himself. Taking in the exact pressure that her put in his strokes, not too hard, but enough to make a proper vibration and melodious sound, "You're really good at this."
Demyx grinned, "Well I have been playing for a long time now."
"Well I wonder if I'll be able to be nearly as good as you." Xhomast smiled scratching the back of his head, laughing.
Demyx laughed, "You never know, come on let's try an easy chord."
Xhomast nodded and once again watched intently.
-Zexion and Lixicaa-
"What's going on out there?" Zexion's voice shouted out from the crack in his door.
Lixicaa's eyes widened, she had to get out of there and fast! Without even thinking of her destination she teleported out of there just as Zexion entered the hallway, all that he saw was a portal of darkness, which soon vanished. Staring at it, noting that it was suspicious for someone to be standing at the end of the stairway. Shrugging it off he walked back into his room and yelled. Lixicaa popped in the middle of the room. Jumping at the sound of the yell she turned around and grinned sheepishly at Zexion.
"H-hi Zexion, hehe, just getting the hang of this teleporting thing, he he." Lixicaa teleported out of there before Zexion could even make another sound.
Zexion shrugged his head in both annoyance and frustration. Just what he needed another fan girl/crush. At this rate it would be easier to just go gay. Zexion laughed, at that thought and then realized that it was probably that new girl at the bottom of the staircase. He put his Organization robe back on and left his room, in search of something to do.
-Jimmy and Xaldin-
"Come on boy, if you ever want to have a chance of joining this organization than you have to be more skilled in the art of battle! Now come at me once more and actually try to hit me this time!" Xaldin roared.
An exhausted Jimmy nodded. He was starting to get frustrated. They had been going at each other for quite some time now, and the one time that Jimmy got even close to hitting Xaldin he just teleported out of the way and knocked Jimmy down onto the floor.
"Why should I even bother? You're just going to teleport again like you always do? You're worst than a computer on a video game who always defends or never gives you a chance to attack or something!" Jimmy threw his wooden rod onto the ground, causing it to snap in half.
"Well those computers sound smart on those "video games". You see in battle, you don't want your opponent to hit you correct?" Jimmy nodded. "Well than I don't see why you're getting mad at me, if you were fighting for your life I'm sure you would be doing the same thing, would you not?" Jimmy sighed and nodded once more. "There you go, so stop getting mad and try!" Xaldin threw another wooden rod at Jimmy.
"Argh fine!" Jimmy yelled. He gripped onto the wooden rod firmly with both hands, the determination in his burned brightly. Xaldin noticed this and smiled, perhaps this boy had some potential after all? Jimmy rushed at Xaldin, rod in hand as if it was a spear, ready to pierce through his opponent.
"Come on and hit me fool!" Xaldin roared as Jimmy got closer and closer towards Xaldin. Jimmy yelled and charged, swinging his rod downwards smacking air as once again Xaldin teleported. Jimmy prepared himself this time however. He skidded on his feet and turned around, blocking Xaldin's fist from smacking into the back of Jimmy's head.
"See what a few hours of training can teach you boy? You wouldn't have been able to hit a fly before this, but now, well now you can defend against #3 of the organization, that's pretty impressive I would say." Xaldin complimented.
Jimmy beamed at the compliment. Xaldin smiled back, but realizing this, he put on his usually unimpressed look, "Now like I said before try to hit me! Or else get out of this place and never come back, understand?"
The smile on Jimmy's face disappeared as it was replaced by a look of pure determination. He swung the rod horizontally, swiping the radius around himself. Xaldin jumped above and summoned one of his lances, "Let's see how you fare against these!" He threw it downwards. Jimmy gasped as he managed to dodge the sharp blade now sticking out of the ground.
"Are you trying to kill me?!" Jimmy yelled.
Xaldin landed back onto the ground and ripped the lance out of the ground with ease, "Fool do you think strangers out in the world will go easy on you? Of course not, so why should I? Now if you're going to whine I WANT you to leave," Xaldin emphasized.
"Argh, you're starting to piss me off!" Jimmy swore.
"How about I make things even then? I know what weapon you wanted if you join the organization, it's no coincidence I gave you a wooden weapon resembling a rod. I know that in your head you were imagining wielding a steel rod with a hidden blade concealed within it. Very sneaky, yet useful, so hear it is." Xaldin snapped his fingers and the wooden rod in Jimmy's hand was replaced with the weapon that he wanted. He swung it around a few times, surprised that it wasn't as heavy as it looked. He thrusted it forwards and grinned as the blade flicked outwards.
"Now time to get serious." Xaldin disappeared.
"Huh? Whoa what's going on?" Jimmy looked around the small training room they were in, but all he saw were the bright white walls of Castle Oblivion.
"Don't rely on your sight boy! A true warrior must be able to rely on his other senses or else he will die in battle!" Xaldin's voice echoed throughout the room.
"You make it sound like I'm going to war or something! We're training why so serious?" Jimmy yelled.
"Don't think Xemnas let your sister and her friend join our organization out of the goodness of his heart. Fool, he let you join because we're preparing for a battle against the heartless that plan to take over this pitiful excuse of a planet called Earth! I hope you didn't think this was all going to be fun and games, there was a reason that Xhomast and Lixicaa got the tests that they did. Xhomast fought against Roxas, one of our most skilled swordsman because Xhomast is going to be another warriors. Lixicaa was questioned by Axel because she's going to be a scout/spy. She's going to intrude on the enemy without being noticed and she will have to memorize the plans of our enemy! And the staring contest, well that's easy. We needed to make sure that Xhomast could stay concentrated and keep his eye on a object, for these heartless can vanish from sight just like that and he could end up dead." Xaldin explained.
"What about me? What am I going to do for this battle?" Jimmy called out.
"You're 12 boy. Your sister is 16 and her friend is 17, there's a difference in age, you are too young for war, accept that and train so that when you are old enough than you can join our ranks. Unless you are good at planning and strategizing? If not than we have no use for you right now, we need a strategist, someone who can think on their feet, someone of great intelligence." Xaldin explained.
"Hey I might know someone who could help!" Jimmy realized, "it's another friend of Alici-uh I mean Lixicaa's and Xhomast's. Her name is Christine and she's intelligent." Jimmy suggested, still trying to find Xaldin.
"How old is she?"
"16, like Lixicaa."
"Hmmm than she could be of use to us than, you can recruit her after our lesson, if you ever find me." Xaldin laughed.
Jimmy smiled and thrusted his rod forwards. Xaldin appeared in sight and smirked, "So close boy you almost got me." The rod was inches away from Xaldin, "What do you mean so close?" Xaldin looked down and watched as the blade flicked out and cut a thin slice of Xaldin's black robe.
Xaldin clapped, "Well done, you were able to land a hit onto me, very well, go find this Christine person and recruit her for us, and then maybe, just maybe we can find a use for you after all." Xaldin teleported out of sight leaving Jimmy alone.
Kicking at the ground Jimmy sighed and decided to leave, he was no use here, and it was all just a waste of time if he couldn't join the organization. He made his way out of the training room and found himself back in the meeting room where he had witnessed Thomas and Alicia join the organization. Once again he sighed, "This sucks, why do they get to join and I don't?"
"Dear child, feeling left out are we?" a familiar yet unrecognizable voice came from behind. Jimmy jumped and turned around only to be looking at Maleficent, leader of the heartless! She bent down and smiled at him, "What's wrong child, do they not want you within their ranks?"
Jimmy glared at her, "What's it to you?"
"Ooh such flare and temper, I like that, but you'd better watch out or the darkness in your heart will consume you." Maleficent warned, standing up straight once more, prepared to leave. Jimmy grabbed a hold of her arm.
"What do you mean, I don't have any darkness in my heart are you crazy?"
Maleficent cackled, "Silly boy everyone has darkness in their hearts, they just don't realize it, but if you join us you can make use of that darkness, with my help you could control it and use it at your whims."
Jimmy smiled, this was it, this is what he could do for the Organization, he could be a spy within their ranks, and they wouldn't even know it! Jimmy wiped the smile off his face as to not arouse suspicion and decided to continue his depressed act, "Why would you want me for? I'm just a stupid 12 year old I would be useless." Jimmy turned his back to her.
"Oh dear child of course you wouldn't come on now I'll show you MY castle, which is a lot better than this wretched place." Maleficent said, "Come to me child and let's leave this forsaken place." Jimmy smiled at this, it had worked, but now he had to leave some sort of note explaining what he was doing.
He felt a hand grip his shoulder, "Come on boy." Jimmy gasped as the air around him went frigid. All he saw was darkness as the two of them left the castle, un noticed by any in the castle that he had even left, and no concern would occur for he was "getting Christine."
-Demyx and Xhomast-
"Whoa did you feel that Xhomast?" Demyx asked.
"Huh, what?" Xhomast wasn't paying attention, he was too occupied with making sure he hit the right strings, "Did I feel what? Oh you mean a dark, unfamiliar cold energy that resembles that of a heartless? Yea I felt it."
Demyx laughed, "Man I must be rubbing off of you."
The two of them laughed and continued playing.
-Zexion and Lixicaa-
Zexion found himself wandering the halls, not able to decide whether or not he should go out and explore this planet or sit back, relax and pop open a book to read. He walked past an open door, and something caught his eye causing him to walk back and look inside. It was the new girl's room and there she was, sitting down without a care in the world, playing with the little chibi plushie that she had won from Zexion's test.
He couldn't help but smile, but he quickly wiped it off his face, he was not one to show emotions, especially since he couldn't feel anything. He slowly took a step back as to not make any noise but as soon as he did so Lixicaa turned her head quickly and found herself staring at Zexion.
Lixicaa gasped and began to blush deeply. Zexion sighed and approached the doorway, "Um may I enter?" he asked politely. Lixicaa merely nodded her head, her face bright red now as if she wasn't breathing.
"May I sit down with you?"
Lixicaa nodded once more and Zexion sat down beside Lixicaa on the floor. She stared wide eyed at him, breathing heavily. Zexion inched a bit away from her, "So… how…. are… you…. enjoying… your… new… uh… life?" Zexion asked looking around the blank room, nothing whatsoever was in there, even though with her new power, could conjure furniture or a bed or something to sit on.
"………"
"Right… well I better go than." With that Zexion teleported out of the room and left Lixicaa alone.
"About time, I thought he would never leave."
Lixicaa jumped up onto her feet to face the intruder but eased down when she realized that it was just Xhomast, "Whoa Xhomast! When did you get here? You must have spooked Zexion off that's why he left!"
Xhomast sighed and rolled his eyes, "Calm down Lixicaa, I just got here a few seconds ago. Besides I need to ask you something important."
Lixicaa sniffed the air, "You smell like chlorine."
"Well you see- huh what? Oh that. Well me and Demyx had just gone for a swim before I came over here, and he is really high strung about keeping it clean so he cleans it after every use." Xhomast explained, "But forget that I need to know something. Did you kill Larxene?"
Lixicaa's eyes narrowed, "Why would you even ask me that?! Of course I didn't, why would I kill Larxene?"
"Ok just asking, calm down. It's just that as soon as Demyx told me that Larxene might have had a thing for Zexion, even though that's not possible for nobodies, well I thought that you would have gotten jealous or something, and well, I know how much you already hated her before knowing this, so I just thought that discovering about Lexion might put you overboard." Xhomast said calmly.
"Lexion? You gave them a couple's name?" Lixicaa hissed.
"Well I can see that you don't know anything about this so I better go, see ya!" Xhomast knew how serious Lixicaa was when it came to Zexion and he did not want to piss her off.
Lixicaa went back to playing with her plushie after Xhomast left, giggling, "Don't worry Zexion, Larxene is dead now, you don't have to worry about her, not ever again."
Xhomast appeared back in his room, which had already been decorated. Several katanas lines the walls along with other miscellaneous swords, spears, halberds, scythes, naginatas and other weapons. Along with that he had a 10 shelf bookshelf filled with various manga and books for entertainment.
He sat down on his bed, deep in thought about his best friend, and her link to Larxene's death. She somehow already knew about the death, but then again everyone probably knows by now. She didn't seem surprised that Larxene was dead, but again that was understandable, not many liked her. But the thing is, why would she die, now, of all days? The day that Xhomast and Lixicaa both join the Organization? That, was just a little too suspicious. Xhomast contemplated the possibilities, but all he could think of was that Lixicaa killed Larxene or someone else killed her to today to make it look suspicious for the new guys. He fell back onto his bed, confused.
"Why am I even worrying about this? I should be enjoying life as an Organization XIII member, not worry about someone dying." Xhomast said to himself.
"Still thinking about Larxene's death buddy?"
Xhomast jumped off his bed, only to trip on the bottom of the sheets and slam face first into the floor, "Argh! That hurt!"
"Need a hand?"
Xhomast grabbed a hold of the hand and yanked on it, causing the other person to slam face first into the floor as well, "Ow! That does hurt!" he whined.
Xhomast laughed. He realized who it was now, "Well that's what you get for spooking me Demyx."
The two of them stood up wiping the dirt and dust off their robes. Demyx grinned, "And here I thought we were best buddies."
Xhomast grinned back, "We are. Come on, let's go do something so I can get my mind off of this stupid murder."
"I know just the thing… HOT TUB!" Demyx yelled ripping his cloak off, standing in a pair of swimming trunks.
Xhomast laughed, "Why not?"
The two of them were about to head off when they heard a voice in their heads, "All members report to the meeting hall, this is urgent."
Xhomast and Demyx sighed, teleporting to where they were told to go.
-Meeting Hall-
Everyone arrived one by one, some were whispering amongst each other about Larxene's disappearance.
Xemnas began to speak, " Demyx? Is there a reason that you're in a bathing suit at an important time like this?! You need to take things more seriously!" Xemnas rubbed his temple, obviously annoyed with Demyx right now, "As you may all be aware already, we have lost a member. Larxene, The Savage Nymph, has been killed…… by one of our own."
Xhomast immediately looked over at Lixicaa, who wasn't even paying attention. She was daydreaming with a creepy sparkle in her eye.
"Not only that but it seems that one of our recent new comers have betrayed us and joined the Heartless so who knows what kinds of secrets of ours that they know by now." Xemnas seemed extremely irritated, "Both of these crimes will not go without punishment. We will retrieve the young "Jimmy" back from Maleficent and the Heartless army and deal with him than. But first, we must deal with the traitor that killed Larxene. Could you please step forwards, Lixicaa."
Xhomast's eyes widened, he had been right, Lixicaa did kill Larxene!
Lixicaa stood before Xemnas, a calm look was on her face, "Yes Superior?"
Xemnas too was calm, "I believe that from the Kingdom Hearts games you know what the punishment for treason is, correct?"
Xhomast gasped and Lixicaa nodded, "Death."
"That is correct. But in your case you will merely be given your heart back and your memories of these events and meetings erased." Xemnas told her.
"You can try. But I won't go without a fight." Lixicaa warned.
Xemnas grinned, "Well I had a feeling you wouldn't make it easy."
"STOP!" both Xemnas and Lixicaa looked over at Xhomast who was now walking towards the two in the middle of the room.
"You can't be seriously getting rid of her? At this time of all times?"
"What are you going on about boy?" Xemnas asked annoyed.
"I know about the upcoming war with the heartless. You're going to need as much help as possible for this, so I don't think you can afford giving up another member, unless you think the 11 of us can deal with them?" Xhomast smiled.
Xemnas sighed, "You two have just been a hassle since you have gotten here! Damn it Demyx you don't know when to keep your mouth shut! But you're right, I do need as many soldiers as I can afford. You're off with a warning this time Lixicaa, but I better not see you commit another treasonous act, or else."
Lixicaa nodded.
"You may all leave!" Xemnas roared, extremely piss off at the moment. He left the room without another word, the others left too, leaving just Demyx, Lixicaa and Xhomast.
"You have guts dudes, the both of you. I could not be so calm with Xemnas even after all this time that we've been a group, I'm looking forward to you guys hanging out with us and helping us with the war against the heartless." Demyx placed his arms around the both of them, "Well se ya in the hot tub Xhomast!" Demyx teleported out of the meeting hall as well.
"Thanks Xhomast, for helping me out I mean. Without your quick thinking I might be back at home, stuck playing Chain of Memories instead of experiencing it first hand, I owe you one." Lixicaa smiled.
"No need to thank me, besides what are friends for, other than pissing you off of course." Xhomast laughed, "Well I'm going to head to the hot tub, bye Lixicaa!"
Lixicaa waved as Xhomast teleported out of the area. She too was about to do the same when Axel appeared in front of her, "I must say, I am quite impressed new girl. Not only do you have a good memory but you have what it takes to kill a fellow member of the Organization. But remember, because of this, Xemnas will always see you as a traitor and won't be reluctant to start investigating and watching you around the halls, just be warned, and if you ever need to talk," Axel placed his face inches away from Lixicaa like he had done before, "I'm here, got it memorized?"
Lixicaa scowled and pushed him away from her face, "Thanks but if I need someone to talk to, I'll talk to Xhomast, Demyx, Zexion or someone else. Besides I would rather spend a day with Larxene than talk with you, and that's saying something."
Axel shrugged, "Well I'm shocked. I can't believe such a pretty face like yours could be so rude to a handsome guy like me. Just why do you hate me so much? You haven't really given me a reason."
"I just do so get out of my face!" Lixicaa vanished from sight.
"Well I'm going to need to keep an eye on her myself, and I'd better watch my back from here on out."
Well that's it for this chapter. A little shorter than the last one (by about 2 pages on Microsoft Word) but oh well. I hope it's a good chapter for all who are reading this, and don't forget to REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW! I would have had this chapter up earlier but I got sidetracked with school, and I'm going to be busy this weekend because….I AM GOING TO ANIME NORTH IN TORONTO WOOHOO! Eh-hem, I'm ok now anyways time to go now, and don't forget…REVIEW!