A/N:Heyo again! This week was pretty tiring, so I wasn't able to work on this chapter as much as I would have liked, but ah well. Here's chapter 4!
Reviews:
XxXxTwilight RisingxXxX: Why yes, yes, you are allowed to laugh at the sound of breaking ornaments. Mwahah. I have alot in store for Zexion and Demyx.. XDD And I agree. Rabbits are a little crazy, but they're cute and fuzzy, so it's alright.
Crystillianray:So that's where the rock went...
Disclaimer:I still don't own Kingdom Hearts...
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Zexion walked through the long white halls of the castle, heading for the lounge with his book in hand. Eventually, he made it to his destination and lazily flopped down onto the couch, looking around to make sure a drunken Luxord was nowhere to be found before opening his book and beginning to read. He yawned and stretched out on the couch, reaching over for the T.V remote so he could watch T.V and read at the same time, like he always does.
"HIII ZEXIOOON!" The sudden outburst made Zexion jump and fall off the couch by accident. He looked up with a grumble and saw Demyx standing behind the couch, that same always happy smile plastered on his face.
"Demyx. What have I told you about sneaking up on people? It's rude. Don't do it."
"But Zexion! There was something I needed to tell you!" He whined, earning an eye roll from Zexion as he crawled back up onto the couch.
"And what exactly would that be, Demyx?"
"We get to put up the Christmas tree!" Zexion gave a feared look at Demyx, who was still grinning like a madman.
"We get to.. what?"
"Put up the Christmas tree! Xemnas told me earlier to do it, and he also told me to tell you to help me because apparently he thinks I would destroy something and stuff, and he's too busy with paperwork and 'plotting to take over the world' and stuff to actually do it himself. He would have Saix do it but he's stringing lights outside the castle already, so since me and you are hardly ever busy he wants us to do it!" Zexion was actually pretty surprised. That's the longest Demyx has ever talked without breathing at the end of every sentence.
"Fine," he sighed, "I guess I don't really have any choice in the matter, do I?"
"YAY!" He reach over the back of the couch in an attempt to hug Zexion, but Zexion saw it coming and quickly dodged by rolling back off the couch and under the table in front of it.
"No hugging. You know I don't like hugging." He shot a glare at Demyx who only gave him a sad look, but it was quickly replaced with a smile as he trotted off to get the Christmas tree box from the basement of the castle. Zexion got out from underneath the table, placed his book on top of it, and followed him, but kept his distance fearing another hug attempt. "Alright, so let me get this straight. We are on the second floor right now, and the Christmas tree is in the basement which is two floors down. Not to mention every staircase in this castle has about two hundred steps."
"Yuppers! That's exactly right!" Demyx nodded, and Zexion almost hit his head against the wall. They eventually came to the first staircase and descended as fast as they could without tripping and falling. Demyx decided to try and ride the railing down, but couldn't keep his balance on it and almost fell, so he decided to take the 'boring way down' as he called it. This repeated at the second staircase as well, until they entered the basement.
The basement was pitch black, and there were about ten wooden steps that led down into it. Zexion went down the stairs and began feeling for a light switch, almost tripping over random objects on the basement floor. He eventually found it, and the whole room was lit by a single bulb. The basement was rather small, so it didn't take much to light it.
"So where is the box, Demyx?" Zexion looked around, but found no Christmas box. He couldn't find Demyx anywhere either. "Demyx?" He walked over to the bottom of the stairs and looked up to see Demyx still at the very top, cowering around the corner. "What are you doing? Get down here now!"
"Is it still dark down there?"
"No, I found the light switch, it's not dark anymore." At this, Demyx came down the stairs, while Zexion rolled his eyes again.Demyx ran over to a large box, which contained the Christmas tree. The box was about the size of both Zexion and Demyx together, and it looked really heavy.
"Here it is! Okay, Zexy you grab that end, and i'll grab this one and on three we lift and carry it up to the second floor!" Zexion shot Demyx a glare for the nickname, but moved over and picked up the end of the box, which was extremely heavy. Demyx lifted the other end, and they moved over to the stairs, being careful not to fall while they ascended them. Once they were at the top, Demyx dropped the box, causing Zexion to also drop it before he got his fingers crushed.
"Demyx? Why did you drop it?"
"It's heavy! I can't carry it anymore!" He whined and sucked on his fingers, Zexion just grumbled.
"Lift the box. The faster we get it up the stairs the faster we can rest." Demyx whined some more, but did as he was told and picked up the box again and they began the long treck up the stairs leading to the second floor. Zexion occasionally stumbled but quickly regained balance and continued to walk backwards up the stairs. Demyx could actually see where he was going, but continued to complain about his fingers hurting rather than watching the stairs. After what seemed like twenty minutes of stumbling and complaining, they reached the second floor, and immediately dropped the box and collapsed on top of it.
"I can't feel my fingers anymore!"
"At least you could see where you were going as we went up the stairs. I almost fell backwards fifty times."
"So! My fingers hurt! They really huuuuurt!" Demyx began sucking on his fingers again while Zexion just banged his head on the box repeatedly.
"At least this is the easy part. We don't necessarily need to lift the box anymore, just push it into the lounge which is right around the corner. Then we just have to take it out of the box and put the ornaments and lights on it, and we're done." Zexion shoved Demyx off the top of the box and began pushing it down the hall into the lounge. Demyx followed, still sucking on his fingers. Zexion ripped the top of the box open and looked inside, finding a good sized Christmas tree inside that was already put together. All they needed to do was get it out of the box.
"It's really pretty! I can't wait to decorate it." Demyx quit sucking on his fingers and stared at the tree. Zexion started lifting it out of the box, and Demyx helped him. After they got it out of the box, they set it on the ground in the lounge and realized something was missing.
"Hey Demyx?"
"Yessum?"
"Where are the ornaments?"
"Oh! They're down in the basement!" Demyx smiled at Zexion who only twitched and beat his head on the wall repeatedly. "Oh look! I can see Saix outside!" Demyx pointed out the window, and Zexion walked over to look. They indeed could see Saix outside, still stringing the lights onto the castle on his ladder. Demyx opened the window. "HIIIIIII SAAAAAIIIIIXX!!!" He shouted and waved at the man, who was taken by surprise and fell off the ladder by accident. Zexion chuckled at the poor guy while Demyx just looked confused.
"Anyways." Zexion shut the window. "Run down and get the ornaments real fast will you? I'll start fixing up the Christmas tree to get it ready for the ornaments and lights." Demyx nodded and rushed off to get the box of ornaments and lights from the basement, as Zexion started fixing the branches on the tree. After five minutes, Demyx arrived back on the second floor with two boxes in hand. Zexion just gave him a weird look and wondered how he got back up so fast.
"I got the lights and ornaments!" He said as he placed the boxes on the floor, ripping open the one containing the lights and pulling them out. Zexion helped him untangle them and they began wrapping them around the tree. Once they were finished, Demyx plugged it in, almost electrocuting himself in the process. The lights on the tree lit up, with a mix of green, red, yellow, blue, and purple, but one light flickered out and Zexion glared at it, before reaching into the box and pull out a bag of spare light bulbs.
He took the broken light bulb out of the socket, and started to put the other one in. But somehow as he put the other bulb in the socket, a couple sparks flew out of the socket and onto the tree, which began to smoke.
"Zexy! The tree is smoking!" Zexion looked up at the tree, which was indeed smoking, and watched as a little flame started on the end of one of the branches. He and Demyx began panicking, Zexion thwacked Demyx upside the head, in an attempt to make him stop running around screaming and put the fire out. Demyx finally stopped and ran over and grabbed a fire extinguished and began hitting the tree with it. Zexion thwacked him again and stole the extinguisher from him and used it on the tree. The fire thankfully stopped before it spread to any of the other branches.
"That was a bit too close." Zexion let out a sigh of relief. "And you control water, why were you panicking?" Demyx only shrugged and laughed at himself.
"I dunno, I guess I never thought of using my water to put out the fire." Zexion opened his mouth to say something, but stopped after realizing it was pointless.
After that little event was over, Zexion inspected the damage, and after confirming that only one branch was charred, he grabbed the box of ornaments and began taking a few out and putting them on the tree. Demyx did the same, but dropped a few and they shattered on the floor, earning a glare from Zexion, whom went to the kitchen to get a broom to sweep up the mess. When he was in the kitchen, he heard even more shattering noises, and little squeaks coming from the lounge. He sighed again and headed back into the lounge with broom and dustpan in hand.
"Sorry! I dropped a few more!" Demyx just scratched the back of his head and smiled. Zexion facepalmed and swept up the mess. He decided to keep the broom in the lounge until they were done, seeing as there were probably going to be many more shattered ornaments by the time they were done.
"Just take one at a time, Demyx, and hang it on the tree. But don't hang them too close to the other ornaments, spread them out a little." Demyx nodded and did as he was told. A little while later, they ran out of ornaments and decided the tree was finished. Except for one thing.
"We need to put the tree topper on now." Zexion reached back down into the box and pulled out a large white heart shaped tree topper.
"Oh! Oh! Can I put it on pleeeease!!" Demyx started jumping up and down, and Zexion sighed and handed him the tree topper.
"Just don't break it. Please, please for the love of Kingdom Hearts don't break it." Demyx just laughed and tried putting it on the top of the tree. After realizing he was too short, he looked around for something to stand on, and he stared at Zexion.
"Hey, Zexy?"
"What?" He didn't like that look Demyx was giving him.
"I'm too short to reach the top of the tree, so can I stand on your shoulders?" Zexion gave him a weird look but sighed and walked over to Demyx as he climbed up onto Zexion's shoulders.
"Ouch! Demyx! Be careful! You stepped on my head!" Zexion growled and Demyx just stared down at him apologetically. He put the topper on the tree and climbed off of Zexion's shoulders. Well, more like Zexion threw him off.
"There! Doesn't it look pretty?"
"Yeah, looks wonderful, now, if you don't mind im going back to reading my book." Zexion said as he flopped back onto the couch, opening up his book and beginning to read again.
"Alrighty! Bye Zexy!" Demyx waved as he walked back down the halls and headed into his room.
"Stop calling me that!" He shouted after him.
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Axel and Roxas stared at Jack as he made his home in the little cage.
"He's adorable. I'm really glad that Xemnas didn't wake up and find him." Roxas said as he continued to stare at the rabbit.
"Me too. Jack sure is a brave little bunny! Not even I would dare to go into Xemnas's room without permission." Axel took Jack out of his cage and began petting him.
"Brave? More like crazy." Roxas reached up to pet Jack, but the rabbit lunged out and bit his hand instead. "GAH!" Roxas yelped and began shaking his hand up and down, Jack still holding onto his hand. "GET IT OFF!!" Axel began laughing at Roxas's pitiful attempts to get Jack off his hand.
"Go Jack! Go!" Axel continued to laugh as Roxas tugged at the rabbit trying to pry his mouth open and pull him off his hand.
"Help? Please?" Axel sighed and pulled Jack off Roxas's hand with ease.
"I don't think he liked you calling him crazy." Roxas just stuck his tongue out at him while shooting death glares at Jack, whom only twitched his nose innocently. Suddenly, they heard a yell from what sounded like Xemnas's room.
"What was that?" Axel just shrugged and put Jack back in his cage. "Wait a minute. Axel, did you clean up the droppings Jack left on Xemnas's floor?"
"No, I thought you did." They both looked at each other for a minute before realization hit them. The droppings were still on Xemnas's floor, and in plain site too.
"We are so busted." Roxas groaned.
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A/N:Whoo! I had fun writing this chapter. XD I had to do something involving the lights on the Christmas tree catching on fire or something.. seeing as our lights tend to mess up every year. Our tree doesn't catch on fire, or anything, the lights just refuse to work most of the time and we end up having to put a whole new strand on instead. x.o
Anywho, hope you liked this chapter. Chapter 5 should be posted this weekend sometime I hope. Not making any promises though. XD
Next Chapter: Xemnas calls the whole Organization into their meeting room for something important.. I wonder what it is?