Blarg.
I have like... no inspiration anymore. Probably from lack of internet and isolation from fellow Kingdom Hearts fans. I also think I'm getting sick. It happens. So... let's see if I can make my non-inspired brain work, eh?
A/N: On repeat today... "I'm not over"by Carolina Liar.
Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts isn't mine. I just like warping things.
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"Confrontation"
"So what the hell do we do with him?" asked Luxord, staring at a still unconscious Saix. They had pulled him out of the rubble of the stone bookcase, and laid him out on the middle of the floor. He had cuts on his face and shoulders, but was breathing just fine.
"Throw him out a window?" suggested Zexion where he still cowered behind Vexen.
"Be nice, Zex. You have no idea what we walked into, OK?" said Axel, looking at Saix with remorse. The assembled stared at Axel, expecting an explanation.
"The girl he liked...she was dead when we got to her house and..." sniffled Demyx. "There was a lot of blood." he whispered to the floor, still clutching the hem of Axel's shirt. Zexion's face fell and he looked out the window to his right.
"Aerith is dead?" he croaked. Demyx and Axel nodded and Vexen turned to him.
"You knew about this? About the girl?" he asked. Zexion nodded.
"That's why he's been such a royal pain in the ass. Because he missed her and because he knew that if she ever found out what he was..." he sighed. "We had this conversation a while ago." said Zexion. The Nobodies all stared at Saix on the floor.
"That's why he went psycho?" Marluxia asked no one in particular, still cradling his arm.
"Love can make you do some pretty crazy things." Axel said, not mentioning that Zexion threatened to tell Xemnas about her. Demyx's eyes flickered up briefly, then back to the torn, pathetic mess of being on the floor. Luxord had his eyes closed, deep in thought. Suddenly, they flew open and he looked to Zexion.
"Who else knew? About Aerith?" he asked, piecing the puzzle together.
"Just Xigbar." murmured the boy.
"You don't think Xigbar would just kill her for no reason, do you? He's not that bad." Vexen said to Luxord, who was shaking his head, still thinking.
"No, but somebody did. Somebody from the Organization." Demyx imputed, telling them of the wooshing sound of darkness they heard in Aerith's room moments before she was found.
"You think Xemnas ordered her death?" Zexion thought out loud. Axel shook his head.
"I don't doubt it. But I don't think the member we heard depart was the one that killed her." he said, focusing on the wall behind Laxaeus and Marluxia.
"Why not?" asked Zexion.
"She was found on the floor. And there was so...so much blood. We would have heard a scream or a thud or something. You know as well as I do that random Organization members appearing out of nowhere is enough to scare someone into at least a gasp. Hell, it still scares me when Dusks pop up in my room at night." Demyx spoke, as if reading Axel's thoughts. All were quiet, thinking.
"So...who could it have been?" Marluxia asked.
"Anyone that wasn't there." said Vexen.
"Well who could it absolutely not be? Let's make a list." suggested Zexion.
"Saix..." began Axel. "Me, Demyx..." he looked to Luxord.
"Zexion and I were here the whole day." Luxord defended himself.
"Vexen, too." said Zexion from the couch.
"Laxaeus and I were in Twilight Town looking for you three..." said Marluxia.
"Which leaves Xemnas, Xigbar, Xaldin, Larxene and Roxas." Demyx proclaimed.
"I thought Roxas was here all day?" Zexion asked Luxord, who shook his head.
"No, he wasn't, now that I think about it." he mused. "He came into the room just moments before Saix appeared and asked me for a pack of cards."
"You don't honestly think that puny little..." began Marluxia in Roxas's defense when the boy came skidding into the room, Xaldin, Laxaeus and Larxene on his heels. He stopped just short of stepping on Saix's outstretched arm, bending over and holding his knees, panting.
"The...The Superior..." he gasped. Everyone in the common area looked at him, concerned, then to the Nobodies that had followed him.
"The Superior and Xigbar are dead." said Xaldin solemnly. Gasps echoed in the room and members of the Organization stared at each other in open-mouthed horror.
"They...they can't be. Not The Superior..." Zexion said in disbelief.
"Yes, The Superior." said Larxene, worry in her voice. "Someone killed him." she gasped, fighting tears of fear for her own safety.
"Someone like you?" Vexen glared at her.
"How dare you accuse her?!" Xaldin growled at Vexen, who shot him a poisonous look.
"Well if she didn't do it, who did? You? Maybe key-boy over there?" he said motioning to Roxas.
"I'll give you 'key-boy'." threatened Roxas with a scowl. Demyx detached himself from Axel's shirt and stood between Vexen and the others.
"Everyone just calm down, OK?" he said calmly.
"Calm down?! No one's accusing you of murdering The Superior!" Xaldin shouted at him, Larxene crossing her arms and nodding in agreement.
"Look, it might not even have been one of us, alright?" Axel said to the quickly angering group.
"'Might not'." said Laxaeus sarcastically.
"It had to have been one of us." said Zexion solemnly from beside Luxord. "We're the only ones with access to the Castle." he murmured.
"Maybe it was a lesser Nobody, then." volunteered Luxord. Larxene scoffed.
"Trust me, it wasn't a lesser Nobody." he whispered, the gory scene flashing back into her mind.
"Then it was one of you guys!" Vexen said again, pointing to the group that hadn't been present for Saix's outburst.
"Well it sure as hell wasn't me!" said Roxas, placing a hand on his chest. "I was here with you guys." he said.
"Not the whole day." Demyx pointed out.
"Can it, creampuff." mumbled Roxas.
"The fuck did you call me?!" glared Demyx.
"Cream...puff." said Roxas.
"Say that again, I dare you! Say...it...again!" yelled Demyx, inching closer to Roxas.
"Creampuff!" Roxas spat. "Creampuff, creampuff, creampuff!" Roxas began shouting over Demyx's threats.
"Demyx, come on..." Axel urged, holding him back from lunging at Roxas.
"Hey Axel, keep your pet in check, would you?" complained Larxene when Demyx stepped on her foot in an attempt to get closer to Roxas, who was now staring him down. Axel's eyes widened and he let go of Demyx, who fell forward after putting all his weight into escaping the stronger man's grasp.
"Larxene, knock it off." said Zexion.
"I wasn't talking to you, daddy's boy." she snapped. Luxord growled, but Vexen's outstretched arm kept him from walking up to Larxene and smacking her.
"You're such a bitch." Zexion muttered.
"And you're a pussy." she shot back.
"No, that's Demyx." Roxas interjected.
"Fuck you, Roxas!" yelled Demyx, again under control by Axel.
"Yeah, you'd love that wouldn't you?" glared the keyblade bearer.
"So mature of you." commented Laxaeus.
"No one asked you!" Roxas spat.
"Well no one asked you either, murderer." said Vexen with poison in his voice.
"I'm not a fucking murderer!" Roxas shouted.
"Liar!" cried Vexen.
"I second that." said Demyx.
"Well I don't." Xaldin said calmly.
"Is that because you're the one that offed the Superior and Xigbar?" Larxene asked coldly.
"Oh, Larxene...shut up!" Axel yelled, giving up on holding Demyx back who was now an inch from Roxas's face, both boys yelling obscenities at each other.
"You shut up!" she shot back.
"How 'bout you both shut up?" suggested Zexion. Vexen chuckled.
"You'll get yours, beaker-boy." glared the diminutive blond. There was a thud from the side of the room where Roxas and Demyx were arguing. Roxas had punched Demyx in the jaw and the sitarist was on his back at Axel's feet, holding his face. Laxaeus helped him up, steadying him with large hands. When Demyx was able to see straight, he lunged right for the keyblade bearer, sending both of them crashing into the white, wooden card table, reducing it to splinters.
"Way to go, rockhead." snapped Xaldin.
"Keep pushing me! I dare you!" Laxaeus snapped back.
"There you go again! Just knock it off already!" pleaded Axel.
"You know what?!..." started Larxene. The sound of 10 Nobodies all arguing at once had become deafening. Laxaeus and Axel were trying unsuccessfully to pull Demyx off of Roxas, Larxene and Vexen were having a screaming match and slapping each other in the face, Marluxia and Zexion were calling Xaldin 'murderer' from across the room and Luxord stood amongst it all, shaking his head. Right as the arguments were at their peak, there was a loud groan from the floor that made them all stop and turn around.
"Shut up, shut up, shut up!" cried Saix desperately from the floor. He stood shakily, glaring at all of them.
"What the hell happened to you?" asked Larxene, wide-eyed at the sight of Saix covered in blood.
"Don't ask." he said gruffly. "And is there any logical explanation for you all acting like a bunch of attitudinal, bickering children?" he demanded. The members of the Organization hung their heads. "I didn't think so." Saix said hoarsely. "Now what...the hell...is going on?" he asked.
"Xemnas is dead, man." Zexion muttered.
"Xigbar, too." Demyx added from where he sat next to Roxas, still glaring, but glowing with pride at the sight of the keyblade bearer's cut and bloody lip.
"You've got to be kidding me." mumbled Saix.
"Afraid not." said Marluxia.
"So who the hell did it?" asked Saix, touching the gash on his cheek from Luxord's shuriken.
"We don't know. But it was a member of the Organization." said Axel, the tension in the room skyrocketing.
"How do you figure?" asked Saix, tearing off a piece of his shirt and pressing it to his face.
"We're the only ones with access to the Castle." said Vexen, prompting Saix to shake his head 'no'.
"We're not. Trust me, we're not. If someone else is strong enough to use the power of darkness and knows where to find us, they could waltz right in here and we'd never know the difference." he said, looking to his fellow denizens of darkness, watching the color drain from their faces.
"You can't be serious." whispered Luxord.
"Afraid I am. So while you all are over here trying to kill each other, there could be someone inside the Castle that's just waiting for you to fall asleep." said Saix bitterly. Everyone's eyes widened. "Look, I know you're all scared. But Xemnas and Xigbar are dead, OK? Dead. And one of us could be next. Fighting isn't going to solve anything. So I suggest we stick together. Never walk around alone. Groups of two or more. No sleeping alone, either." he listed.
"I hate to rain on your parade, Saix, but no one appointed you our boss." said Xaldin bitterly. Saix shot him a deathglare.
"Maybe not. But while you may be number three, I'm third in command. Just under Xigbar and Xemnas." he said. "And I'm just telling you all what I think would be best."
"This coming from someone who tried to kill Zexion, and then the rest of us?" asked Luxord. Marluxia nodded slowly in agreement, still babying his arm.
"Well...I agree with Saix." piped Zexion, to the surprise of all.
"Me, too." said Demyx.
"And me." muttered Axel. Vexen and Roxas raised their hands, tentatively.
"Fine. We'll listen to the crazy one." Xaldin muttered. Saix shot him a dirty look.
"Alright, starting now, no one go anywhere alone. Sleep with someone else in the room, or don't sleep at all. We clear?" said Saix. The others nodded. Things quieted down, though everyone was still on edge. The only things left standing in the common area were the couches where a few people were huddled, muttering apologies to each other and mending their fellow Organization members' wounds. Demyx, Axel and Saix sat off to the side.
"So do you think it was one of us? Or someone else?" asked Axel. Saix shook his head, a few chunks of bloody blue hair falling in his cut up face.
"I don't know." he said quietly, wincing when Demyx pressed a wet rag to the cut in his face.
"We might have to cauterize this." muttered the sitarist, shaking his head and prodding the laceration gently.
"I'll get on that later, nurse Demyx." Axel said with a laugh. Turning serious, he looked to Saix.
"So if it wasn't a member of the Organization, who was it?" he questioned. Saix shook his head again.
"Who knows?" he said. "But if it is a member of the Organization, no one is safe. And whoever killed Xemnas and Xigbar killed my Aerith." he said sadly.
"You're sure of that?" whispered Demyx.
"Positive." he replied.
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Kind of a filler chapter.
But while I was writing, I got some good ideas in my head.
So this should be interesting.
Your thoughts?
