Day 19: The Castle Oblivion Team
Aamilxa walks into the Lounge area. Saix is there waiting for her. He walks up to Aamilxa.
"Orders from Lord Xemnas" said Saix. "You are to go to the round room for a meeting. Six other organization members will be waiting there.
Aamilxa nods and makes her way to the round room. She arrives and sees that the six members that are there are Axel, Marluxia, Larxene, Vexen, Zexion, and Lexaeus. Larxene glares at Aamilxa. Marluxia looks interested. Axel is calm and deep in thought. The others just mind their own business. Suddenly Xemnas appears in his chair. He looks around at the others and then looks at Aamilxa.
"Aamilxa" says Xemnas "It will be hard for you to properly participate in this meeting being all the way down there. Why not take Roxas's seat. I'm sure he won't mind.
Aamilxa looks behind her and looks at the seat. She sprouts her wings and flies up to the seat sitting down. All eyes were on her now. Larxene continues to glare, Marluxia smiles, Vexen does the same, Zexion and Lexaeus give blank stares, and Axel smirks.
"Now with everyone here we can begin" said Xemnas. "The seven of you have been chosen to travel to Castle Oblivion. Vexen, your team will continue research on the Replica project. Marluxia, your team will deal with Namine. Aamilxa, you will alternate between the two teams. You will be working under both Marluxia and Vexen. You will also serve as the messenger between us and the castle. Make sure you are on top of everything that happens. You will all be leaving in four days. That is all, dismissed."
Xemnas disappears along with everyone else except for Axel and Aamilxa.
"Aamilxa, follow me" said Axel. The two of them teleport out the room. Axel leads Aamilxa down the hall to his bedroom. Saix is there waiting for them.
"Good the two of you are here" said Saix
"If you're here" said Aamilxa. "Does that mean…."
"Yes" said Axel "I'm the spy that will help you out during the Castle Oblivion mission."
"Axel is the perfect choice for exposing the traitors should your claims be true" said Saix. "He can convince anyone to trust him."
"You give me way too much credit" said Axel. "I'm just good at what I do."
"You being assigned to Castle Oblivion was originally to help with the replica program" said Saix to Aamilxa. "This arrangement will force the traitor's hand especially if you are the messenger."
"So basically I'm a target" said Aamilxa.
"Well, that's a harsh way of saying it" said Axel.
"But truthful" said Saix. "With you there they will be more drawn to Axel possibly recruiting him at the very least to insure that you don't discover what they are planning. As far as the replica project is concerned, Vexen can fill you in on the details of that."
"I see" said Aamilxa.
"Relax" said Axel "I'll be there if anything goes wrong."
Saix gives Aamilxa a small device that appears to be a small pocket size computer. "Use this to send the messages. It will connect you to the computer we have in the basement. Only Lord Xemnas and I have access to view any message you send."
"Ok" said Aamilxa.
Meanwhile, Larxene and Marluxia meet up in his room.
"This is a complete disaster" said Larxene pacing back and forth. "How could he assign that doll to the castle and as a damn messenger? I should have broken her when I had the chance."
"I thinks it' because of what happened that he decided to do this" said Marluxia. "This might be the punishment that Saix was talking about. Besides, her being assigned to the castle was already decided before anything else. She is the key to the Replica program. She's the reason Xion exists in the first place."
"It doesn't matter, how are we going to go about our plan now that she is the communication between the castles?"
"She trusts me. Or at the very least, doesn't suspect anything from me. She is going to gravitate towards you once we are at the castle. We can use this to our advantage."
"How?"
"We still need at least one more person to join us for our plan to work. Xemnas assigned me as head of the castle. I could introduce her to Namine."
"That's dangerous. How are we suppose to…?"
"Worst case we can get Namine to rewrite her heart as well. With Replica's having artificial hearts, it shouldn't be a problem."
Larxene stops pacing and smiles. "We do have another option."
"What's that?"
"We could let Sora deal with Aamilxa. He is bound to have some animosity towards her since she is Aimala's clone."
"Yeah, that could work but only as a last resort. We can't draw too much attention to ourselves."
"Then we'll just play it by ear."
"Of course" the two of them smile at each other.