Part 4
I woke with a wide-mouthed yawn. I felt really weird that morning because I felt as if someone had crushed me with a steamroller. I got out of the bed and went to the bathroom to see what was wrong. I was as scared as hell when I found out what happened to me. I was…was…
"CHIBI!" Xunakiy exclaimed.
"That's what we are?" Vexen asked.
"Yeah! Back in my home world, we watch cartoon shows called anime! And if something crazy of funny happens, most of the characters turn out small and they're called chibi!"
"We all look so adorable! Larxene yelled out.
"Yeah! Now Marluxia fits right in with his hairstyle!" Axel declared.
"Look who's talking!" Marluxia angrily replied. Then he pulled a hammer out of nowhere and slammed it on Axel's head.
"That hurt!"
"It serves you right!"
"Umm…Marluxia? Where'd you get the hammer?" I asked.
"I don't really know!" Marluxia happily shouted.
"Oh yeah! I forgot." Xunakiy started. "When you're a chibi, you can do things that aren't normally possible! Like so…" Then she ran off really fast and came back with a bowling ball.
"What are you going to use that for?" Xigbar asked.
"For this!" Xunakiy then rolled the ball towards us and we were sent flying in different directions.
"Strike!"
"Don't do that, Xunakiy." I objected.
"Oh, okay!"
"Any reason why we are like this?" Luxord asked.
"I have no idea!" Xunakiy said with a happy expression.
"Well, what usually happens when you're watching your shows?"
"Usually, being chibi is usually part of a closing sequence to an episode. They don't really change back."
"So we're to assume that we're stuck like this?" Vexen asked.
"Maybe, this is the cause of a heartless, you know, like the other one on Valentine's Day."
"You could be right…"
"In the meanwhile, let's just try to put up with this." Xigbar commented.
We were pondering so much about becoming "chibi" that we completely forgot about breakfast. And Xunakiy cooked up what she called an omelet. But just cooking it was hectic.
"Okay, Axel-senpai, can you bring the eggs over here."
"Okie dokie!" Axel then took the eggs out of the container and threw them up in the air.
"Nani!? What are you doing!?"
"I'm juggling! Wha—wha—waah!" Axel dropped all of them, save for just one.
"Axel, it would've helped if you just brought them over there…" Roxas commented.
"At least we have one egg that I saved!" Axel said with grin upon his face.
"What good is that one gonna do for us?" Xigbar commented. Then he shot the egg and whatever was inside got splattered all over Axel's face.
"What'd you do that for!?"
"Oooh! Ooooh! I know what to make of this!" Demyx yelled. He put on some glasses and started. "Axel's juggling of the eggs has reminded me of something. Each of the eggs represented a certain job or priority in one's life, and the juggling reminds us that we need to pay close attention to an egg, while at the same time we make sure that the other eggs do not fall. Life is about balance and staying quick and alert as everything threatens to spin out of control! But, seeing as Axel has dropped the eggs, most likely he will give up, representing that one's life has fallen out of order. But if Axel proceeds to juggle another set of eggs, he will grasp the important concept of persistence. End of commentary."
"Since when did you become a poet, Demyx?" Lexaeus asked.
"I have grasped Xunakiy's concept of humor and minisculinity in the fact that we are able to commit deeds of which are not possible while in this form of which this party seems to loathe and detest." Demyx replied and then slipped off the glasses.
"English, new Vexen!"
"Hey!" Vexen protested.
"I'm saying that we can do absolutely anything while we're chibi!"
"Why the hell couldn't you say so!?"
"Because I would be talking out of character!"
"You were talking out of character when you put those stupid glasses on!"
"Axel-kun…"
"Ye—hey!" Turns out, Xunakiy had taken out her megaphone and Axel had stopped moving.
"I demand that you get out and get buy some new eggs since you disposed of these!"
"YES MA'M!" And Axel sped out of sight.
"You can do that with your megaphone?" I asked.
"Of course!"
"I'm back!" Axel yelled while waving around an egg carton.
"Why'd you get back so fast?"
"Well, we can do anything, right?"
"Oh yeah."
"Okay! Time to make us some omelets!"
She was cracking the eggs, and most of us were complaining that it was taking a long time to crack open all the eggs, so Lexeaus just walked over, took out his tomahawk and just smashed what was left in the carton.
"Baka!" Xunakiy shouted and she gave Lexeaus a large hit on the head. It was pretty fun to watch. "You don't just smash the eggs!"
"Why not?"
"Because you'll get eggshell pieces in the omelets! And if you get eggshell pieces in the omelets, they'll be crunchy!"
"Okay."
"Let's just get on with cooking them."
She started cooking the eggs on a VERY large pan.
"What's with the large pan?"
"It's to cook everything faster!"
"You call that faster!? If you had a bigger fire, we'd have omelets in no time! Move aside!"
"No! Axel-kun, if you do that—"
"Too late!"
Axel took the pan and started to burn the eggs from underneath. Little did he know was that he was heating up the handle and it was too hot for him to hold.
"GAAAH! THIS IS HOT!"
"Axel-kun!"
Axel dropped the pan and it started up a fire in the house.
"Whadda we do!? Whadda we do!?" Xigbar was yelling while waving his arms around.
"I know what to do!" Demyx exclaimed.
Suddenly the room turned black and was replaced with one big maze. The fire turned into these small fire monsters and they were chasing around Demyx.
"How'd this happen?" I asked.
"Demyx-senpai is playing Pac-Man!"
"Pac-Man?"
"Pac-Man is a fun and classic arcade game! You have to get all the big orby-things to eat up all the bad guys and you have to eat all the orby-things to win the game. Or in this case, Demyx-senpai has to eat put out the fire thingies to win! Oh-look Demyx-senpai put out one!"
I wasn't following what she was saying, but it seems that Demyx was putting out the fire monsters.
"Oi! Demyx! There's a fire extinguisher to your right!" Larxene shouted.
"Thanks! Take that you Axel rip-offs!"
"Hey!"
The room returned back to normal, seeing as Demyx beat the fire monsters. But the kitchen and the dining room was a mess.
"Told'ya I knew what to—WAAH!"
"Demyx! Turn that thing off!"
"Heh heh. Don't we look lovely?"
We were all covered in the fire extinguisher stuff after Demyx accidentally opened it.
"If I may make a suggestion…" Vexen started. "WE STILL HAVEN"T EATEN BREAKFAST!!"
"OH NO!! I DIDN'T CCOK YOU GUYS YOUR OMELETS!! IF YOU GET HUNGRY, OR IF I HEAR YOUR STOMACHS GROWL, IT'S ALL BGECAUSE OF MY LAZINESS!! I'M SO SORRY, FRGIVE ME!!"
"Woah! Calm down, Xunakiy!"
"Okay! Let's get on with our cooking!"
"If you didn't notice, Xunakiy, the kitchen is a mess..."
"Oh…Let's just order takeout then!"
"I'm full! I can't eat another bite!" Most of us said with bloated stomachs.
"So, what else happens when we're chibi?" I asked.
"Well, almost anything can happen!"
"Does that mean Vexen will give me a horsey ride?" Roxas asked.
"No I will not."
"You know, Vexen, it won't be long before I'm all grown up. One day you'll wake up and wonder how all the years slipped by. You'll look back and say, 'Where has the time gone? Roxas is so big, it's hard to remember when he was small enough that I could give him horsey rides.' …But I guess that those days will be lost forever."
Vexen was silent for about five minutes and Roxas was about to walk away until Vexen angrily threw Roxas on his back and started running.
"Only for one stupid minute…" Vexen told Roxas.
"I'm just happy that you're meek enough to do this for me!"
"Shut up."
We all laughed our butts off, similar to how Vexen did to me on Xunakiy's third day. While I pondered this, Vexen started seeming a little tired.
"I think I've worked through my potential guilt now."
"No, no! Jump over somebody!"
"How do you expect me to do that!?"
"I don't!"
"Okay, horsey rides are DONE." And Vexen threw Roxas right off his back.
"WAAAH! I GOT AN OUCHY BOO-BOO!"
"That's nice…"
"NICE!? NICE!? I GOT AN INJURY FOR PETE'S SAKE!!"
"Who cares?"
"I forgot about that factor."
For some reason, a telephone rang. I didn't even know we had working telephones here. Larxene picked it up.
"Hello? Mm-hmm…No thank you, I'm not interested. Hmm? …No, I don't want…mm…as I said, I don't…mm-hmm…no, I…look, I'm not…hmm?…" She stayed quiet but… "DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU THAT I HAVE A LIFE BEYOND THIS SALES PITCH AND YOU'RE INTRUDING ON IT!?" Then she slammed the phone back down with such force, that there was a crater where the phone charger was supposed to be.
We were all scared when we looked at Larxene and then she put a hand to her head. "There would be more civility in this world if people didn't take it as an invitation to walk on you."
Then Demyx spoke up. "Some of us are only civil because we don't know any swear words."
"Meaning you, bubble-boy?"
"I didn't mean myself, I was talking about some other members in this Organization."
"Like who?"
"I'll get back to you on that, heh."
"Hey, Demyx!" Axel yelled.
"Yeah!"
"Want to know a funny trick? When somebody isn't looking, you tie his shoes together!"
"Haha! That sounds so immature, but that's the beauty of it! Let's go find some sucker who isn't in the room to pull it on!"
"Yeah!"
"Let's go—WAAH!" Demyx had fallen for the trick.
"HA HA! I told you that was funny!"
"Grr…You get back here!" Demyx quickly got up and started bounding after Axel, but he fell almost every other jump.
"EVERYONE! VAMPIRE BUGS! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!" Xigbar came into the room screaming and waving his hand around his head.
"Umm…Xigbar…those are mosquitoes." Luxord commented.
"So if they drink your blood, you don't turn into one?"
"No."
"Oh, hey! Luxord!"
"What?"
"I see a mosquito on the back of your head!"
"WHA—WHERE!? WHE—OW!!"
"Can you believe it!? I missed! OI! GET AWAY FROM ME!" Luxord pulled out a large fly swatter from behind him.
"I'm not aiming for you, there's a mosquito that landed on your back."
"GET AWAY FROM ME!!"
All of this had made us laugh so hard that most of us were actually coughing and in between the coughs, there was uncontrollable laughter.
We spent most of the day playing around with each other like this and then the time suddenly came when we were supposed to go to sleep, but of course, our chibi-ness wouldn't let us.
"Hey! Axel-senpai! Roxas-senpai! Demyx-kun!"
"Yes!?" They all said simultaneously.
"I got you guys model airplanes!"
"Airplanes? What are those?" Demyx asked.
"In my world, they are a mode of transportation for different numbers of people." They all seemed fascinated. "I got you the model airplane that is called a jet, the kind that only seats two, and you guys can build a small-scale version!"
"Yay!"
"Oops. I need to go somewhere today! See you guys later! Have fun!" And she sped off. Only me, Roxas, Demyx, and Axel were in the room.
"Okay, since we don't know how to build this thing, we'll just start with Dem-Dem's model." Axel suggested.
"Why do we need to start with mine?" Demyx asked.
"Because if it turns out ugly, I have something to burn using all of my frustration instead of you."
"Sounds reasonable. Okay, let's open it up." Roxas suggested.
"Wow. It looks complicated." I said.
"Okay, umm…how do we do this? There are so many small pieces…" Demyx asked.
"Shouldn't we read the instructions, Axel?"
"Do I look like a sissy, Roxas?"
"Oh, well." I took the instructions and I nearly got dizzy looking at them. "The instructions are in a completely different language…"
"Lemme see those…Oh no! They are! How are we gonna do this!?" Demyx shouted.
"Uh oh, I got glue on my hands." Axel said.
"Anyone know how to translate this?"
"This stuff is worse than mozzarella cheese."
"It's not so hard to believe that they put an English sticker here that says, 'Get adult help for assembly.'"
"Yecch. What a mess."
"Should I learn Xunakiy's language?"
"I hope Xemnas likes these newspapers here on the floor because they sure aren't going anywhere."
"Nuts! This wheel strut snapped. Why do they make 'em so darn small? I guess that was an optional piece." Demyx said.
"Hey, Demyx." Roxas asked. "The wheel here won't fit in the wheel well."
"Here, let me try. Sometimes, you just have to …" SNAP! "DARN IT!!"
"This plane is in for some rough landings."
"Look at this stupid model. It looks awful!" Axel shouted. "Our plane doesn't look like anything like the picture on the box."
"Maybe we can fix it when we paint it." Roxas suggested.
"How'd they paint eyebrows on a pilot that's less than an inch tall!?"
"I think that's a real jet superimposed on a plastic stand."
We were working on Axel's jet for a couple more minutes, but I think we would've gone insane with assembling that thing if we were regular people.
"I hate this model, nothing fit right, the instructions were incomprehensible, the decals ripped, the paint slopped, and the glue got everywhere. What a disaster. Munny completely down the drain. I can't think of an evening I've enjoyed less. What a dumb rip-off…Of course with this for practice, we can work on mine with no flaws whatsoever!"
"What am I supposed to do with this!?" Demyx demanded. "I thought you said you were going to burn it!"
"I changed my mind."
"I'll tear you limb from limb!" Now that would've been a fun sight to see, unfortunately, Axel and Roxas warped out of the room.
"Darn it!"
"Hey guys!" Xunakiy came back yelling.
"What is it Xunakiy?"
"Zexion-kun! You'll never believe what I came across!"
"What?"
"This!" And Xunakiy pulled out a small creature. No doubt a heartless because it had an insignia. But this one was…
"It's adorable!" Demyx shouted. It was adorable. It was all small and shaped like what Xunakiy described as a riceball.
"I think this is what is causing our chibi-ness."
"You think so?"
"Uh-huh."
"Oh well…"
We proceeded to kill it, and Demyx was crying because it was so cute. Then everything returned to normal. No more smallness and no more crazy events taking place. Demyx went to sleep, but me and Xunakiy wanted to go to the library.
I was still thinking about my dream the other night about my supposed conversation with Xigbar, it was driving me nuts thinking of what it was really about. So, since Xunakiy was from a different world than everyone else, I thought I might ask her.
"Can I ask you something Xunakiy?"
"Go ahead, Zexion-kun!"
"Is it possible for someone to have someone else that looks like them in another world?"
"Actually, it is possible."
"Really?"
"Yes. Even though someone lives in one world, they won't be aware of the other self that exists in another world. They might even have different personalities. But the one thing that won't change about them is their essence."
"Essence?"
"What they are, call it an aura, if you want to."
"I see."
"Zexion-kun!"
"What?"
"I completely forgot about it!"
"Forgot about what?"
"A lunar eclipse! It's going to happen tonight!"
"A lunar eclipse?"
"You just gotta see! Let's go outside! Oh, wait! I need to tell everyone else!"
"I don't think—" She ran outside and took out her megaphone, transformed it into a mike stand, and shouted.
"EVERYONE! I NEED YOU TO GO OUTSIDE TO SEE SOMETHING REALLY IMPORTANT!!" Then she turned back. "Zexion-kun, you coming?"
"Of course."
We ran outside to Memory's Skyscraper, where Kingdom Hearts as a moon was pretty small from that view, but something was strange about it that evening. Pretty soon, I found out why.
"Look what's happening to the moon!" Axel shouted. Saïx started looking sick, and I started to see why everyone was amazed.
"Told you guys it was something important!" Xunakiy said in an I-told-you-so voice.
The moon was slowly darkening and then it turned completely red.
"This won't happen again in a long time, that's why this is so special. And this is also one memory we can all share."
"Yeah."
"Ain't this cute!" Xigbar said behind us. He then walked over and put his hands on our shoulders. "Y'know, if you two were whole, you'd make a pretty good couple!" And then he took his hands off and continued to watch.
"These are one of life's pleasures that can make life so enjoyable." Xunakiy said. She was acting a lot like a poet today.
Things like this lunar eclipse have actually happened before. Several times, in fact. But, before tonight, I never bothered to look at things like this. I always thought they were a waste of time. But now, I feel somewhat different. As if, my soul is a lot lighter. I should just stop with the poetics.