Nineteen Days With Demyx

Day 7 – Demyx and the Daddy Goose


Demyx was walking merrily along the castle hallway, avoiding work and darktravelling away whenever he heard footsteps, when, out of nowhere, Xemnas appeared behind him.

The silveret placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Number IX, I strongly suggest-"

Xemnas was cut short by a (totally manly) screech of surprise from the blond he had been attempting to scold.

"O-oh, it's just the Superior… THE SUPERIOR!" Demyx said aloud, covering his own mouth almost instantly after the words left his lips.

Xemnas raised an eyebrow.

"Umm, ummm, GOTTA GO BYE!" Demyx took off sprinting in the other direction, apparently forgetting in the heat of the moment that he was capable of darktraveling away. And that Xemnas was too.

The blond quickly learned this, as Xemnas promptly took the opportunity to darktravel directly in front of him. This wasn't the best move since Demyx's boots were less that skid-proof, and he toppled into the older man while trying to slide to a halt.

From underneath the happy-go-lucky sitar-wielder, Xemnas blinked slowly.

"And where did you think you were going?"


So booorrreeeddd~

Demyx was currently on reconnaissance at some sort of children's park, and despite recon being his preferred type of mission, this particular mission was probably the most boring one he'd ever been sent on (of course, that was what he said every time he was sent on a mission, but I digress). All there was to do was watch dumb kids run around and push each other over. One even got pushed into the pond. He would have laughed, but he remembered that he was supposed to be bored and grumpy and stuff.

Absentmindedly, Demyx noticed a family of geese nestled under an overhang near the pond shore. A mother was nuzzling four eggs affectionately, and the father was stalking circles around the nest protectively. He looked about as grumpy as Demyx felt. But he was also quite scary when he honked wildly at a wayward child.

Said child ran away screaming. Demyx made a mental note to stay away from him.

After around half an hour of extreme boredom (more or less), Demyx decided enough was enough. So, naturally, he went off to catch frogs from along the bank, because what if the princess was here? Xigbar did say that she had left Marluxia's garden not that long ago. Demyx proceeded to snatch a few frogs out of the water, examining them thoroughly. None of them looked very royal, and Demyx was a teensy bit skeptical.

A loud 'HONK HONK' broke the silence. Out of nowhere, the daddy goose came charging at him with reckless abandon, like Saïx when he entered into his "I'm-out-of-coffee-and-somehow-it's-Demyx's-fault-and-I-REALLY-WANT-TO-MURDER-SOMETHING" state. And as always when Demyx was faced with something that remotely resembled Saïx, he took off running.

Past the children who looked on at the situation quizzically.

Past the colorful benches decorated with butterflies and flowers and the promise that this park would bring new friendships into existence.

Past the bathrooms (closed for cleaning, said the sign.)

Past the creepy, creepy play equipment that featured children's faces smiling.

And finally, Demyx found himself face down in the slimy pond bed with frog eggs in his hair and pond gunk weighing down his coat.

The daddy goose looked satisfied with his work and waddled away contently.

Demyx waited a minute, then two, and then finally looked down at the mess that was his organization coat.

"Not another lecture!" he whined.


"Again!?" Xemnas was beyond infuriated, and Saïx, blunet demon that he was, was snickering from his place by the coffee machine in Xemnas' office.

"Number IX, how many times do we have to go through this!?" Demyx, who was busy pulling frog eggs from his mullet, murmured a half-hearted excuse about saving a drowning child.

"Alright. That's it. You're not going on any missions for awhile." Demyx almost whooped for joy, but then remembered that there was obviously a catch.

"You're going to stay here and do the Dusk's jobs." Demyx would have burst out into crocodile tears to get out of it, but the extremely, extremely angry look on Xemnas' face convinced him to keep his mouth shut.


"Doing the things that a Dusk does~" Demyx sang, mopping the length of the hallway. Marluxia exited his room, heading past Demyx.

"Doing the things that a Dusk does~" Marluxia looked annoyed.

"Doing the things that a Dusk does~ That a Dusk doooeeesss~"

"Doing the things that a Dusk-"

"Would you shut up!?" Demyx stopped abruptly.

"Oh hey Marly!" Marluxia narrowed his eyes. Demyx gulped.

"Um… 'sup?"

"What's happening…?" Marluxia opened a dark portal.

"NO WAIT DON'T GO I HAVE NO ONE TO TALK TO MARLY PLEASE!" Marluxia stepped through.

Demyx stared.

"…"

"…"

"…"

"Doing the things that a Dusk does~"