Me: Well it's a near full house here. All but numbers 3,4, and five of Organization XIII are here plus, Cloud brought ten boxes of popcorn, Tifa brought plenty of sodas (No alcohol…there are minors present.) and Yuffie and Zexion are on Popcorn duty, Sora, Riku, and Kairi are here…Oh and I finally persuaded Sephiroth to stop being a pain in the butt.
Sephiroth: That would be when I appeared in Chapter eight.
Xemnas: (In a bored monotone voice) On behalf of Xaldin, Vexen, and Lexaeus I must formally protest their not being invited.
Me: Hey the only one not invited is (Growl) Xaldin.
Axel: Yeah Vexen is always too busy, and Lexaeus couldn't care less…and we all know how Mr. Star Tours Traveler feels about Xaldin.
Xemnas: (In normal voice) True.
Larxene: Hey S Double T!
Me: That's my nickname…S double T…It's an Axel thing, Yes Larxene?
Larxene: When are you starting this thing…I want to see Zexion's butt whooped!
Zexion: (From Kitchen) I heard that Nymph!!
Larxene: Bite me; you still owe me ten bucks from whether or not Demyx could beat himself in Kingdom Hearts II!!
Me: Did I mention that Sephiroth is handling security? (All fall silent as Sephiroth is heard sharpening the Masamune with a small stone, and smiling sinisterly) Ok then let's start the story.
By now all four of our heroes had their weapons drawn and Lumiere and Cogsworth were hiding behind a statue.
"Look Zexion, I don't know what I did to you but I…" Roxas said but was interrupted by a large dark lexicon flying towards him, which Sora promptly took down with Reflect.
The resulting blast from the reflect spell (at it's the highest level) hit Zexion, but the Nobody leapt into the air sending three more dark lexicons down towards the heroes until a sudden beam of bright light vaporized them…It was Kairi using her special limit break called Heart Light.
"Such power…such Light!!" Zexion said to himself as he retreated into the ballroom, only to be greeted by Riku who had slipped past him during the Heart Light limit break, and charged at him with Way to Dawn in hand.
Zexion blocked the attacks with the lexicon and quickly flew out of Riku's range only to have to block Riku's Dark Aura attack. Roxas then leaps over Riku (Who was standing in front of the door) and begins his limit break called Destiny's choice.
Oblivion starts to glow purple and Oathkeeper glowing white, Roxas then throws them into the air and they join together like a fan blade and start spinning in a wild vortex of Light and Dark energy, Roxas then jumps up and swings the Vortex by the Keyblades over towards Zexion and it sucks him in.
A few seconds later the vortex dissipates and Zexion falls to the floor, but lands upright and charges Riku and Roxas. He leaps into the air preparing to send more lexicons at them when the two suddenly dive in opposite directions to reveal Sora and Kairi flying towards him, both in Final Form.
Sora with the Kingdom Key and the Bond of Flame Keyblades and Kairi with her Keyblade (Me: I'm calling it Life bringer) and the Divine Rose Keyblades swirling around them.
The two immediately start slashing at the Cloaked Schemer who eventually falters and is hit by the four Keyblades repeatedly in a furious attack.
Zexion dropped to the floor with a loud crash, and Sora and Kairi float safely to the ground and revert to their normal forms.
Zexion struggles to stand up but fails.
"You win…Roxas." Zexion said as he grimaced after every word.
Kairi walked over to him, and placed a hand on his shoulder, stooped over and picked up the fallen Lexicon, then handed it to the fallen Nobody with a caring smile. Zexion was obviously baffled by this.
"Why…you beat me, and yet…you let me live? Why?" Zexion asked as he sat on his knees.
"Aww come on Zexion, we didn't come here to kill you…or fight you for that matter." Sora said compassionately.
"If…if that is so…why did you come here?" The Schemer asked.
"We just wanted to find you that's all." Roxas said offering him a hand, which the Nobody promptly took hold of and pulled himself up.
"By the way, why did you want to kill me?" Roxas asked
"From what Xaldin told me before Sora killed him…" Zexion went on to explain that Xaldin had told him that both Roxas and Axel had gone rogue and that Xemnas had ordered their annihilation, and that he hadn't heard from another Organization since Xaldin was killed.
"Oh so that's why you attacked me…I would have thought that you would be after Riku for defeating you." Roxas said pointing a thumb towards Riku who was cautiously thumbing through the Lexicon.
Zexion looked at Riku for a moment, and then shook his head.
"No. I lost to Riku fair and square…it was that cursed replica of him that I hate more than anything." Zexion said as Sora started tapping his forehead as he tried to figure out what he was talking about.
"Well you don't have to worry about the replica anymore…" Riku said glancing up briefly from the Lexicon, "…It died." Zexion was surprised then lowered his head in remorse.
"I thought you would be overjoyed Zexion?" Riku asked curiously.
"Hey when you know Zex as long as I have, you learn that while he may hate something, he doesn't want it to die…he hates death…despite what others say." Roxas explained.
"Ok I am starting to get a headache…what are you guys talking about" Sora yelled in frustration.
There was a long pause before Zexion finally said…
"You don't know because you never saw it, nor can you remember…that's what happens to those who enter into Castle Oblivion." Zexion told the young and very confused Keybearer.
"Castle what?" Sora asked even more confused.
"-Oblivion. A castle that the second you enter it, you forget every ability and every spell you ever knew and as you progress up its thirteen floors, you forget more and more until you can hardly remember your own name." Zexion explained
"Is that why I had to go to sleep for a whole year?" Sora asked the Schemer.
"I don't know…I honestly don't know." Zexion said with a shrug.
"Uh Sora I hate to be a nag, but we do have a mission." Roxas said finally.
"Huh…oh right…Zexion we didn't just come here to find you." Sora told the nobody.
"I figured there was another reason." Zexion shrugged. "What are you looking for?"
"…your other…Ienzo."
Radiant Garden
The sun was shining, birds were singing, and Axel was getting to use a welding torch…life was good.
The entire Restoration Committee was hard at work making repairs to the city.
Larxene was put in charge of recharging the batteries for the power tools, which she could do in a flash, while Vincent Valentine would take the fully charged batteries to the correct worker just as quickly using his red cloak form.
Demyx was using his power over water to fill a large barrel with water so that Marlene Wallace could pour in powdered Gatorade mix and stir it up…with Tifa's supervision of course
Things were going along smoothly…then it happened…Yuffie, who was showing off for the un-attentive Vincent, doing a hand stand and drilling a nail into the wall at the same time.
Well the nail went in all the way but when it got far enough in, the drill stopped spinning the nail…instead it started to spin Yuffie around…and considering the fact that Yuffie get's motion sick easily…let's just say that there was a mess.
To make matters worse when she finally let go of the power drill, she was thrown straight into the air. By now she had the attention of the entire restoration committee.
"Uh boy." "Oh no" Reno and Rude said in that order.
Larxene and Elena (Who was on a Gator-aid break) looked at each other and nodded in a "Let's do it!" kind of way and Larxene grabbed Elena's wrist and together the two black portaled to opposite ends of the wall they were working on, and Larxene instantly summoned a fist full of kunai and threw them at a set of flag poles where a sturdy yellow cord materialized quickly between each kunai.
Each kunai dug into a pole as Elena fired her Net Caster gun (as seen in FF: VII Advent Children) towards a set of flag polls on the opposite side, with the darts attached to the net sinking into the flag poles just like the kunai.
Larxene then grabbed the Net Caster and leapt into the air and landed perfectly on the center pole then jumped down and as the net cord came down and did a loopy-loop, up and over the yellow cord with the gun in hand.
Yuffie came screaming down and safely landed on the net.
Larxene and Elena bowed to the thunderous applause from their spectacular rescue.
Yuffie fell into a blissful state of unconsciousness for the rest of the day.
Later during the day Reno found his nobody fighting against Demyx's water forms for practice on the factory floor where our Heroes had departed from earlier in the day.
As Axel defeated the last form, he turned to Demyx. "Ok let's call it a night." To which the Melodious Nocturne agreed and promptly slumped down into an Indian style pose and started playing his Sitar.
It was then that Axel noticed Reno watching.
"Hey there Other Brother." The pyro said friendlily.
"Other Brother?" Reno replied confused until he figured it out a few seconds later. Axel just laughed.
"Yeah, if your gonna live around your Nobody, you kind of have to get used to the awkwardness."
"Yeah but that Sora kid makes it look so easy." Reno said
"Hey watch it buddy, other or not you're talking about my best friend and his other." Axel argued.
"Chill man I didn't mean it in a bad way, I was just saying its kind of weird being around a near duplicate of yourself sometimes." Reno replied to which Axel nodded.
"You're telling me." A voice said from over the sitar music in the background
"Uh, Demyx, you and Rufus are nothing alike…except for your love of water, and a few of your facial features." Axel said to which the Nobody in question stopped playing.
"Ohhhhhh?" Demyx said standing up, "Reno do you remember when Rufus got his hair cut because he liked the way some guy passing through the city had it?" Demyx asked as Reno doubled over in laughter.
"Yeah…His hair was a total…mess…" Reno said between fits of laughter.
"It was a mullet wasn't it?" Demyx asked knowingly.
"…Yeah…now that you mention it…it was…in fact…I keep a black mail photo of it on me at all times." Reno said as he fished in his pocket and pulled out his wallet. He proceeded to flip through a set of clear plastic pages with pictures in them until he found said picture.
"Here it is." Reno held it up to Axel who looked at the photo…confused.
"Uh Reno…this isn't Rufus…this is Demyx…" As Axel looked at the photo of a frowning and miserable looking Demyx he noticed something familiar, then it hit him, "…and he's wearing Rufus's business suit!" Axel exclaimed as he realized that the similarities between a slightly younger Rufus Shinra and the Melodious Nocturne.
"So that's where the mullet came from." Axel said in surprise.
"It sure is." An angry Rufus Shinra said as he stormed towards Axel and Reno. But as he approached the two he stopped about midway and got a confused look on his face.
He stomped the floor a few times before stooping down closer to the floor and stomping again.
"Okay…has he officially flipped?" Axel asked his other, but Reno didn't answer, he knew when Rufus was on to something.
"That's odd. The floor sounds as if it's…hollow." Rufus said as Demyx walked over to him.
"Demyx…do you know anything about what happened in this castle prior to the heartless defeat?" Rufus asked the Nocturne.
"Well…there were rumors about Superior having some secret room hidden beneath the castle but that's just what I heard from Zexion before he got killed in Castle Oblivion." Demyx explained as Rufus stood there thinking.
"Hey how come I didn't hear anything about this?" Axel asked, feeling offended for not being informed.
"Well I would have thought Larxene would have told you."
"I would have told him what?" the familiar voice of the Savage Nymph asked as she walked onto the factory floor.
"Superior's secret room." Demyx responded
"Oh the Room of Sleep?" Larxene asked back receiving an exasperated look from both the Flurry and the Nocturne.
"You know what it's called?!" the two said in unison.
"Yeah…sometimes it pays to spy on meetings between higher ranking members." Larxene said with a smirk.
"So what is it?" Axel asked
"Dunno…I got caught by Mr. Bull's-eye before they said anymore." Larxene said with a snicker. (Me: Mr. Bulls-eye Saix)
"Well whatever it is…" Rufus said finally breaking his silence "…but it is definitely beneath this floor."
"Well someone has to know how to get down there!" Reno said as Rufus looked up at the control room.
Axel, Larxene, and Demyx's respective gazes turned towards the control room as well. Then suddenly it clicked…
"TRON!!"
End Chapter 10
Me: Well that was certainly a long chapter.
Axel: (Laughing hysterically) Mr. Bull's-eye…that's rich!
Saix: Do you hate me? Did I do something to offend you?
Me: No but it sounds like something Larxene might call you.
Larxene: True
Yuffie: Despite the fact that I nearly caused a disaster while showing off…I thought it was very good…but seriously I really don't act like that.
All: OH YES YOU DO!!
Cloud: Especially around Vincent.
Yuffie: (completely missing the crowd's argument) Hey where is Emo Supremeo anyway?
Me: Locked in his coffin if he knows what's good for him.
Zexion: So that's why I hated Roxas.
Me: Yep.
Sephiroth: When will I be featured again?
Me: Soon…possibly the next chapter. (Turning to Saix) Tell you what moon boy, how about I let you go berserk on all the flame reviewers.
Saix: (Smiling sinisterly) Excellent.
Me: Then it's settled. Ok Xemnas…hit it!!
Xemnas: (In a dramatic movie trailer announcer's voice) Readers! Stay tuned for what happens in the next installment of the Reunion Series. Will Sora and his friends find Zexion's other? Will the Restoration Committee find Xemnas's fabled Room of Sleep? And what does Maleficent, Pete, Sephiroth, and the mysterious six hooded figures have in store for the warriors of the Light? All this and more coming soon to a Fanfiction website near you.
All: (Applauds)
Sephiroth: I can do it better.
Xemnas: Oh…I doubt it.
Sephiroth: Oh yeah?
Xemnas: Yeah!
Me: (whimper) Just what we DON'T need…a fight between Xemnas and Sephiroth.
Luxord: Place your bets people, place your bets!!
Me: Oh shut up and put me down for ten bucks on Sephiroth.