Haha! Chapter 9, finally! Why is this taking so long? I apologize for being so slow T_T My midterms didn't go very smoothly and this semester is horrible. Thankfully it's almost over and I'm on srping break now, yay! This chapter is also a bit shorter, I get stuck quite frequently now a days .
Anyway, please enjoy! Hopefully, it isn't too horrible...
[I own nothing but this story and my characters. Nothing Kingdom Hearts is mine T_T]
"Home!" Elessari screamed, getting down on her hands and knees and kissing the castle floor.
"Ew! Don't do that!" Nyoxia screeched.
"Ah! That also means food! Wonderfully, precious food" Elessari exclaimed, ignoring XV as she sped off towards the kitchen.
Nyoxia shook her head, turning back to Demyx who had been strangely quiet.
"What's wrong Dem?"
"I'm sorry about today. I don't mean to mess up all of the time."
"Don't apologize, it was an accident and you don't mess up all of the time. I would probably have made the same mistake. Besides, I knew you would get us out of there, you've got the skills for that" she replied with a smile.
Demyx's eyes lit up immediately "Really? You believed in me?"
"Of course, why wouldn't I?"
"Aw thanks Noxy!" he said, giving her a peck on the cheek before running off to his room. "I'll see you later!" he called over his shoulder.
"O-okay" she stuttered quietly as she watched him go, her cheeks burning. She put her hand to her face, unable to help the smile that ignited as she went to join Elessari.
"Why are you so smiley?" her friend asked when she came in.
"No reason. I'm always smiley" Nyoxia replied quickly.
Elessari's cat-like eyes narrowed as she munched on her candy "You're blushing."
"What? Am not."
"Yes, you are!"
"Black people don't blush Els"
"That is a lie and you are so! Oo, what happened?"
"I am not and nothing! Don't come near me" she said to the girl who was now slowly creeping towards her.
"You can't keep things from me. Tell me!" she yelled, pouncing.
"No!"
"Yes!"
"Get off of me!"
"Not until you tell me!"
"Auuggh!" Nyoxia struggled to unclasp Elessari's hold on her. Just then Xigbar walked in, Nyoxia turning to him "Xiggy! Help me!"
The eye patched man stopped, looking at them "Xiggy?"
"Please, she's being crazy again."
"Well that sounds rather amusing to me. Why would I want her to stop?"
Nyoxia gave him a pleading look "Because we're sort of friends? Ow!"
Elessari pulled on her hair "Just tell me and I'll leave you alone"
"No!"
Xigbar chuckled "Oh, all right dudette." He pulled out his gun, aiming at Elessari who noticed this immediately and screeched as she flew out of the way causing Xigbar to laugh.
"Did you really think I would shoot you?"
"Yes! Why'd you pull it out then?"
"Well, you're right, I probably would shoot you, but not today. Heh, it was for this" he said, aiming his gun up at a gallon of Vexen's distilled water, which naturally, shattered and drenched Elessari from head to toe. "Gahhhh!"
Nyoxia stood with her mouth agape before joining Xigbar in a burst of laughter. By this time, Elessari was fuming, the water slowly evaporating from her shaking form.
"You two just wait." she said leaving the kitchen silently.
Nyoxia stopped mid laugh, eyes wide "But, I didn't do anything!" she yelled after her, realizing that this meant nothing good for her safety.
She turned to Xig who was still cackling "Don't you realize what this means? I've never seen her that angry before."
II stopped, giving her a neutral expression "So? She can't do anything to me, I'm of higher rank."
"That probably won't stop her and even so, I'm not safe!"
"That's a problem for you" he replied with another guffaw as he left; leaving Nyoxia to her new paranoia.
/
Axel had been quiet since they'd left, which was fine with Poxa, until she realized that she was uninformed of where they were going. She thought of just waiting until they got there, but something was nagging her for some reason.
"So...where are we going?" she asked with nonchalance.
He gave her a side glance "Christmas Town."
She gasped, eyes attentive and sparkling "Really?" she asked, running up to him with her hands clasped in front of her. He stared at her for a moment, one brow raised in confusion "Yeah..."
"Oh! I've been wanting to go there" she exclaimed.
"How do you know about it?"
"I overheard Marls talking about his mission there. It sounds so cool. I'm hoping there's a lot of snow like in the Land of Dragons. I don't think Twilight Town gets snow and then there's all of the wonderful festive decorations" she said, speaking aloud to herself at this point.
Axel watched her, speechless, unsure of what exactly was happening here. She stopped mid-sentence when she turned to look at him again and flushed slightly.
"Oh, um sorry, was I- yeah..." she apologized with a small voice, walking ahead with her hood drawn up. Real smooth she thought with a shake of her head and Axel continuing in silence. He concluded, however, that Poxalam was just a very strange nobody and it was another two minutes before he realized that she had addressed him.
"Huh? Did you say something?"
She put her hands on her hips, "No need to be rude now. You haven't told me what the mission is, exactly."
"We're recording activity."
"On what? Or should I say whom?"
"You'll see."
"What do you mean I'll see? Stop being so vague" she scolded.
He turned to her abruptly "How about you quit asking questions?"
"I wouldn't have to if you'd had let the Superior explain to me, but you insisted on leaving immediately" she countered, matching his stern glare. She wouldn't let him win this time. He continued to glare at her, unfazed, until he noticed a fleck of something strange in her eyes that he had never seen before. Their gaze was interrupted by a slight jab at his chest, his eyes trailing down to find nothing. Ha! Poxa thought with a smile. That was weird... he thought, rubbing his head and looking up to find her gone.
"Come on already!" she called, waving him over from beside the portal, as she bounced around.
"What is wrong with you?" he asked.
She stopped "Nothing. Well, actually quite a few things, but nothing right now."
He looked away, motioning for her to go through first with a sigh. He was sure that her giddiness wouldn't last very long.
/
Nyoxia lowered herself onto the couch cautiously, keeping her eyes on alert, darting from side to side. She was sure Elessari was waiting to pounce and enact her revenge. It seemed that she had just taken her seat when she was flying out of it in that exact moment as Demyx had appeared behind her in greeting. She yelped, as she managed to land in the Melodious Nocturne's arms.
"If you wanted me to hold you, you only had to ask" he grinned, wiggling his eyebrows. She gave him a confused expression before realizing where she was and scrambled onto the couch, mumbling a 'sorry' as she did and turning away just as quickly.
He laughed "So what's up with you? Why so tense?"
"It's Els. She said she'd get revenge on me, so I know that she could be anywhere" Nyoxia replied with a heavy sigh. "Even though it is technically her fault for not leaving me alone, but of course she won't see it that way. I don't think she ever gives up until she has the last word."
"Sounds like Larxene. Except she's always angry...and scary" Demyx said, causing them both to shudder and then laugh. He turned to her just then, grasping her hands "I know! You could hide out in my room, she'd never look for you and if she does I can cover for you."
He leaned in close "I've got loads of escape routes rigged to my room, I use them all of the time" he chuckled. She hesitated for a moment looking at his eager face
"Well, I don't know. I don't want to bother you with this."
"It's no bother at all. Besides, I don't bite, unless you want me to" he replied with a wink. N
yoxia went to reply, but found that no words would come as her face began to fluster. He laughed again, his smile wider than ever "I'm only joking Noxy. Now let's go, we can have an epic dance party, or a video game extravaganza or oh! I can teach you to play the sitar!" he exclaimed, already pulling her up and through a portal before she could answer.
He stopped "Hmm, perhaps we should get food first, but I'm low on munny."
"Yeah, me too."
"No worries, we'll just stop by Vexen's lab."
"Wait, you borrow munny from him? I thought you could only do that if you do experiments in exchange."
"Yeah, that's right."
"What? Why?"
"Hey, chill. We agreed that I wouldn't do anything life threatening. Don't want me getting blown up now do we?" he chuckled.
"But Dem, you don't know if they're life threatening. He's a mad scientist, he could get us all blown up one of these days! Don't tell him I said that though" she replied, squeezing his arm.
Demyx gave her a strange look, turning away for a moment as he appeared to be lost in thought. She was about to say something when he turned back to her with his usual grin.
"It's all good Noxy. I appreciate the advice though, thank you. You're so nice to me!" he exclaimed, pulling her into a bone crushing hug.
"N-no prob."
He stepped back after a moment, his face a bit pink. Is he blushing? She thought, no. Why would he be? Demyx grabbed her arm again.
"Noxy, are you listening? I said, let's go find Vexen so we can go buy nummies" he smiled. She nodded as her mind began to buzz, no matter how hard she tried. At least now she was distracted.
/
"This is Halloween Town you liar" Poxa stated, turning to glare at eight.
"I know that. We have to go through here to get there. It's this way" he said, heading off in front of her.
She followed behind patiently waiting to see this Christmas Town, only imagining how wonderful the place must be. They made their way through the forest, as she took notice of the open treasure boxes and various footprints. Some fairly large and...are those webbed footprints? Wait! She stopped as the realization hit her; there was a reason why Axel hadn't bothered to mention names. She clenched her fist, the nerve of this guy. I suppose I should have seen this coming though, ughh. Darn you hedgehog head, heh, hedgehog head. Axel had stopped, facing three trees with pictures painted on them. Poxa walked up to take a look at them; a colorful egg, a Christmas tree, and a large pink heart.
"Would you like to open the door?" Axel asked. She turned to him
"Uh, how about we go explore Easter town first?"
"Easter Town?"
"Yeah, colorful eggs and rabbits and the hopping" she replied, motioning her hands like a rabbit.
"I know what it is! That's not what I meant, I mean that's not where our mission is."
"Oh, uh how about we go collect some extra hearts? I'll assume that one's Valentine's Town so they'll be plenty of targets."
"Why are you avoiding going in?"
"I'm doing no such thing" she answered, a bit too quickly.
He grabbed her wrist then, pulling open the door and dragging her along behind him. "Hey, let go Ax!" she protested, only to be ignored.
They went through a brief darkness before reaching the magnificent scene on the other side. Her eyes filled with the sparkling snow that gloriously covered everything. The colorful lights poking through the sea of white in the distance and the carefully crafted ornaments hung on the branches of the tree above her. Her eyes grew wide in fascination as she inspected anything and everything; even rolling in the snow at one point. Axel watched her with arms folded across his chest in what appeared to be both confusion and amusement.
She looked up at him as he stood over her; she grinned "You should try this, it's fun."
"Uh, I'll pass."
"I knew you would say that" she replied, getting up and dusting the snow off her coat.
She felt a hand touching her hair then, turning to find Axel behind her brushing snow from it "You missed a spot" was all he said before walking away. She merely stared at his back in disbelief.
Her eyes turned to where he was focusing his attention and she saw the familiar forms of Sora and company. She moved a bit closer now, taking in the form of a very tall and slinky man, well at least she thought it was a man. When she reached the top of the hill, she could clearly see that this man was no more than a skeleton in a black and white striped suit. She cringed back for a moment, unconsciously grabbing onto Axel's sleeve who happened to be beside her.
He looked down at his sleeve and then at her. "That's Jack Skelington. He's from Halloween Town. You've never seen him before?"
"What? I don't think so, I'm sure I would have remembered a creepy skeleton just wandering about" she replied with a shudder. Her eyes looked to find her hands still on his sleeve, which she quickly unclasped and ventured forward.
"Let's go. I suppose there's no getting around that we have to keep an eye on Sora" she said not looking at eight.
"Figured it out did you? Well, looks like they've gone into Santa's house so this won't be very interesting."
"Santa? As in Santa Claus?" she asked.
"Yeah..."
"He's real? I knew it! I mean, I stopped believing, but you know if there's such a thing as magic then why not a Santa? Oo, I wonder if I'm on the good list? I should be, right? Ah, this means there's presents here! I want a present" she rambled, leaving Axel, once again to stare at her in confusion.
She bounded up to him suddenly, tugging on his arm "Let's go already, I want to see Santa" she proclaimed.
He raised a brow "Are you serious?"
"Hey, I thought the guy wasn't real, can you blame me for being curious? Besides, there's a chance we could get presents. Well, if you're not on the bad list that is."
"Me?"
"You aren't exactly the kindest person Ax..."
"Oh, you should talk."
"Hey, I resent that!"
"Good" he smirked, walking off.
"See! Why do you have to be so mean to me?" She called, following behind at her own pace.
/
"Alright then Demyx, you're scheduled for Thursday night. 8 o'clock sharp."
"Sure thing gramps."
"Don't call me gramps! You darn hooligan" Vexen snapped as Demyx snickered, turning to Nyoxia and pocketing the munny.
"Ready to go?"
"Dem, are you sure this is a good idea?"
"I already told you I've done this before."
"That was before I knew about it, otherwise I would have stopped you! Does anyone else know?"
"Not that I know of. Oh Noxy, don't worry, we won't live forever you know. I'll be fine, promise" he said, giving her a large smile. "Now, let's get moving, we've got some epic down time to have."
Nyoxia was about to say something, but kept quiet instead. She decided she would worry about him later. A few moments they were stepping out into the middle of Agrabah's market place. She looked around in puzzlement,
"Why are we here?"
"Huh? Are you kidding? They've got the best deals here! Besides, I was in the mood for some foreign snacks. Look, they've got new things today come on!" he exclaimed, pulling her away with him.
They hopped from stand to stand, Demyx haggling with a few vendors as Nyoxia tried to sucker them into giving them extra. However, not many of these attempts were successful so they ended up being chased away. By the time they were finished, their load was enough to feed the whole castle. They portaled back to Demyx's room, Nyoxia halting, mouth open wide as nine took the bags from her. She looked around in awe at the cleanliness of the room; everything had its own place and it smelled heavenly. The walls were painted different shades of blue with waves coming from the bottom and his bed was neatly made as well, a lava lamp stood atop the dresser, and his sitar in its stand in the far off corner. She turned to the Melodious Nocturne who seemed to have not taken notice to her silence.
"Dem, you're room is so..."
"Clean?" he grinned, turning around.
"Well, yeah. I mean, it's just I expected it..."
"To not look like this?" he finished for her again.
He chuckled "I know I can be lazy sometimes, but I enjoy a clean room as much as the next Nobody. My water clones do most of the cleaning, but that's not important."
"Oh, I didn't mean it that way. It was just a surprise I guess" she said.
"Don't worry, I'm not offended. Now, why don't you get the games and movies and I'll get out the systems. You'll find them in the bin in my closet."
She did as he instructed, going over to the giant bin in the closet. She grabbed the pile into her arms, perhaps taking one too many as she struggled across the room towards the television. She ended up tripping over the edge of the bed regardless, landing in Demyx's arms, the cases falling to the floor in a big heap.
She peered up at Demyx who had his beautiful smile in place "Don't worry I got you."
She chuckled, managing a sorry as she straightened herself out, but Demyx's hold on her arms stopped her.
"Hmm?"
He looked at her, his expression serious as he began to lean in towards her. Her mind began to race is he going to-? He was getting closer now, three inches, two inches, just one inch now...She could feel his breath on her face; his eyelashes touching her. Her eyes fluttered close as their lips met.
/
Bwahahahaha a cliff hanger lol but then not really. It just sort of ended that way, but "Don't be mad." :D
