Attraction

It had been a week ever since the members of the Organization woke up from their deep slumber. Everything around the castle was the same as usual, members coming in and out of Dark Corridors to assigned missions and errands.

"Have any of you seen Zenxa anywhere?" asked Demyx as he walked in to the Grey Room.

"Nope...Finding her is as hard as winning a card game against Luxord," replied Axel as he sat relaxingly on the chairs.

"Why...Thank you greatly for the compliment," interrupted Luxord as he walked into the room.

"Why are you looking for her?" asked Amerexa as she kept her eyes on her image reflected from the mirror.

"We're partnering up today for a mission...but I can't find her anywhere...I looked everywhere!" exclaimed Demyx from defeat. "She's good at hiding."

"I'm not the type to hide," interrupted a cold female voice.

"The new members got to stop coming up out of nowhere and scaring me like that! If I had a heart, I'd be dead for sure!" replied Demyx as he almost jumped from the voice.

"That is if you had a heart," said the female with dark violet hair. "You ready to go?"

"I have been for a long while...I was looking for you everywhere...Where were you?" said Demyx as he stood up and walked towards Zenxa's position.

"My room."

"No one answered when I knocked...," said Demyx.

"Or maybe it was the library," replied the woman of five foot six as she kept walking.

"How can you not remember where you were? What were you doing?"

"Sleeping."

Demyx stopped walking for a few seconds to recover from his speechless expression from the fourteenth member's answer.

"I'll meet you there when you recover," said Zenxa as she disappeared into a Dark Corridor.

A figure sat down on the highest walls of Twilight Town's Clock Tower staring out to the horizon of the sun setting. The redness of the sky and the sunset brought back many memories.

"Looks like I'm always drawn back here...How nostalgic...," said the figure with a deep sigh.

"What are we assigned to do?" asked Demyx as he walked out of the Dark Corridor that led to Twilight Town.

"Recon."

"Three years...Many things sure have changed...," said Demyx as he looked around him.

"Let's go...You can admire this place all you want when we're done," said Zenxa as he pulls up her hood.

Demyx and Zenxa carried out their reconnaissance mission as planned and everything went well without them being discovered. However, the mission took a lot longer than expected since many changes had been made to Twilight Town. When the two Organization members were done with the mission, the skies have already darkened.

"Great job," said Demyx as he was prepared to return to the castle.

"Go back first, I'll see if we missed anything," replied Zenxa as she walked out of Demyx's sight.

"Sure!" answered Demyx happily and left. "You're a great mission partner."

As the figure walked around Twilight Town, and noticed the many things that changed while he was gone. Nothing was similar or identical to the Twilight Town from three years ago. As he walked along the well-lit streets of Twilight Town, he began reminiscing the time he spent in this town and the friends he made who might not remember him if they were to ever bump into each other.

He was also on a mission to look for something out of the ordinary in this town. Being as alert as possible, he did not find anything out of the ordinary from the people who gathered at the town square. Deciding to walk out of the town square and up a street that led to the train station, he felt the presence of something or someone following his trail. He began walking faster and hoping he would reach a place with a little more lighting to be able to see what or who was following him.

To his disappointment, whatever or whoever was gaining on him with a similar speed and quickness like his own. Before he was able to react, he was being surrounded and attacked by a group of Heartless.

"Shadows!" he said before he got himself in a battle stance and was ready to defend himself against the Heartless. The Heartless did not attack him immediately, but the moment his battle stance summoned the Keyblades of Oathkeeper and Oblivion, it was the signal for an attack of no mercy. As he defended himself against the Heartless, there were many more appearing. No matter how many he defeated, the Heartless only seem to multiply by a tenfold.

He was losing energy and strength trying to defend himself from the many Heartless that kept appearing in front of him as he defeated one. The moment he was about to give in to tired muscles and slow reactions, someone came to his rescue. He saw something flash before his eyes as quick as lightning before he blacked out completely from exhaustion.

"Well done Zenxa," said Xigbar as he wrapped one arm around the violet haired woman's shoulder.

"I'll be taking my leave now," said Zenxa as she walked into a Dark Corridor before another Organization member said anything and almost making Xigbar fall over sideways.

"Where's the fire?" said Xigbar as he watched the Dark Corridor disappear.

"How did she find him?" asked Xaldin as he found something suspicious.

"Why weren't you there?" questioned Larxene as she stared down at Demyx who was energetically strumming his sitar before he felt the cold stare.

"Our mission was completed...She wanted to double check if we missed anything...She told me to come back first...I'm not complaining," replied Demyx as Larxene's stare made him very uncomfortable.

"Before any of you ask any more questions, the leader wants all of us in the Round Room within the next hour. We're having a meeting," said Saïx with his calm voice.

"A meeting this late at night...?" asked Pexcea. "Doesn't the leader need his sleep like the rest of us?"

"Just follow the order," said Koxiam. "It's not like you're making the rules of how things roll around here."

"He's our leader after all," said Okarix.

Xemnas was the first one in the meeting room waiting patiently for the rest of the Organization to present themselves in the Round Room. The moment all the members sat down in their rightful place, the chairs around the Round Room had been adjusted to include the eleven new members, Xemnas immediately initiated the meeting.

"I am glad to tell you that Fourteen has found our trump card for realizing our ultimate goal."

"You mean...you're willing to accept that traitor back into the Organization?" asked Larxene as an interruption. "Aren't you at all concerned about him betraying us again?"

"That coming from a traitor is epic," interrupted Lyolixe as she tapped her fingers on her chair's armrest.

"You're really one to talk, Sir Larxene," giggled Raluxa as she slouched on her chair.

"Accepting him back isn't the main focus here...Is there something we are not being told about having Thirteen back with us?" asked Choxe as she decided some of her attention from her book.

"Aren't we fortunate that have members like yourself who can see the big picture," replied Xemnas as he grinned. "I never said I would be welcoming Thirteen with open arms...I only want him back for one thing, and that is the power of the Keyblade, and the ability to gain control of Kingdom Hearts."

"However brilliant your plan is...There are still many unanswered questions," interjected Zexion as he was deep in thought. "How did Roxas end up in Twilight Town?"

"You should ask him yourself when he's awake," replied Xaldin as he found everything very suspicious. "Is it really him?"

"Who knows when he'll wake up...That boy is known for sleeping excessively," pointed out Vexen.

"We have plenty of time on our hands...I don't see the point of worrying if it is or it isn't Number Thirteen," added Marluxia. "We can always eliminate whoever we see fit that might threaten the Organization."

"Well, I'm glad we have some form of agreement," replied the leader with one hand placed on his chin.

"How did you know he was going to appear there anyway?" asked Demyx as he looked towards Zenxa's direction.

"...Because opposites attract...," replied the hooded member in question.

Zenxa's reply left many baffled, but it certainly amused Xemnas. Xemnas' grin became wider and he announced to the group, "Now that Thirteen back...We've got quite a bit to work with on our hands."