It has occurred to me that I lacked an 'I' in Rose's rank number last time. My bad.

The answer to the riddle:

"3. Why? Analyze the question again.'Assuming that no more candles are extinguished, how many candles do you have in the end?' If a burning candle is left alone, it will eventually turn into a pool of wax, so the candles that were blown out, which is three, would not be reduced to that.

Mood Movement

Kexez awoke in his bed, yawning. He stood up and went to the bathroom, put on his clothes and exited his room. He didn't take his cloak with him today, cause today it wasn't mandatory. Today it was the weekend, and to the Org members, this meant relaxation. They've been given this day and tomorrow off to rest from their missions every week. There was just one problem. With all the voices, traitors, and incomplete memories he always pondered, the idea of what he would do today never struck him.

As he gobbled up the last of the baloney sandwich he had made for his breakfast, he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned around to see three people standing before him.

"Hey Kexez, we're going to Twilight Town for the Struggle Tournament. Wanna come?" Naxell asked him.

"Yeah, sure... err, who's that guy behind you?" He replied while pointing to the green hair guy. Immediately, the guy's nostrils started flaring, his smile turning into an angry gritted teeth, and his eyes scrunched up that his forehead formed wrinkles.

"WHAT! YOU DON'T REMEMBER ME!" the guy yelled.

The voice was, despite it's intensity, recognizable in Kexez' mind. He had last heard it a week ago.

"Wait, are you-huh?" He had looked back to where the guy was standing, but he was gone. He looked around, and saw him huddled in a corner, swirling dust on the floor, muttering, "nobody remembers me". From Kexez' left, Rose sighed.

"I think that "side effect" of the medicine Doc gave for his allergies was mood swings."

"You know this guy?" he pointed towards the still depressed guy.

"Sadly enough, yeah." She stepped forward to the guy and tapped in on his shoulder. He turned around and the sad frown turned into a smile again.

"ROOOSSSSEEEE!" He jumped toward her with glee in his eyes. Immediately, Rose dodge him while stuffing a white pill in his mouth. The guy fell face flat on the floor. A few moments of silence, and he started to rise.

"Uhhhmm...what?" He said like he was waking up from a daze. He saw Kexez and smiled."Oh, hey... Kexez, isn't it, kid?"

"Yeah, and you are..." he dared asked him, risking another outburst. But instead, he laughed loudly.

"Oh yeah, that's right. I never got to tell you last time. It's Kerex, aka the dude you first met."

Yeah, this was the dude who rescued me back then. Never thought the real him was like this.

"Wait, what were we talking about again?" Naxell said as the whole issue dissipated.

"Something about a Straggle Turn-a-men?" Kerex said with a tone as if he had heard things with earmuffs on.

"Oh yeah! The Struggle Tournament! It's a two day event: you comin' or what?" Naxell yelled to Kexez.

"Like I said before, sure!" Kexez replied happily.

"Great! Meet us down at the hangar at 7."Naxell said as he ran down the hall to his room.

"Wait, the hangar?" Kexez yelled to his friend, but he was way out of earshot. He had only been to the hangar once, and that was when he was strolling around the castle."Why there?"

Rose answered his question. "We block out the dark corridors in and out of here for security reasons."

"I see..." he said blankly. He was trying to avoid thinking of the people who would try to get in.

Half an hour later, Kexez had fished out his munny that he had earned from missions from the bottom drawer, hastily shoved them into his pocket and started to walk to the hangar. He pushed open the cast-iron double doors that led to it.

What met him on the other side were ships lined along the wall, others next to them. Some of them were small and numerous: they seemed to be the grunt ships. Others were larger and more complex. All of them had the symbol of the Nobody emblazoned across their front. With the immensity of the hangar, it looked like just one big Organization XIII parking lot.

Kexez weaved through the maze of ships, until he saw the familiar faces of Naxell, Rose, and Kerex. The moment they spotted him, they waved. He waved back, but it slowed as he started to walk towards the ship behind them. A large ship, silver in color, stood high and proud. The only thought he had in mind was a Lamborghini he had seen the other day... yeah, this was the Lamborghini of ships.

"You like it? I call it the 'Solid Zephyr'. Pretty cool huh?"

"Yeah..." He was still staring at it. It was only a couple of seconds before he realized everybody else was already inside. He walked towards the bottom of the ship, where a large hatch with a ramp was open.

He stepped up to ramp into a room with twelve chairs, barred down to the floor. There were several windows lining the wall, the largest stood in front of the captain's seat. He sniffed to the air, and smelt coffee. He looked to his right, and there was a mini fridge with a coffee maker by it's side, both barred down next to a sink. Beside a door that read Comfort Room, was a steel spiral staircase that led up.

Kexez walked to a seat on the left side and sat down. He could hear the mechanical clank of the hatch closing behind him. Naxell sat on the opposite side, Rose in front of him, and Kerex on the captain's seat.

Kerex pushed a few buttons and flipped a few switches, and the ship started to tremble vigorously. Kexez could hear the swell of the engine's whirr from behind him. He looked out the window, and saw the other ships slowly getting smaller. The ship did a 180 towards the hangar door.

"Dammit." Kerex said as facepalmed himself; the hangar door was still closed. He picked up a small remote from his side and pressed the red button. The door opened with a noisy grind.

The engine roared even louder, and moments later he was thrown back on his seat as the ship zoomed out of the hangar. It jettisoned through the murky clouds, and went into the deep expanse of space.

Kerex pushed several buttons and stood from the seat. A female robotic voice sounded: "Autopilot engaged. Setting course for Twilight Town." He then alighted from his seat and approached the fridge in the back. Rose stood as well to go to the bathroom. Naxell merely sat on his seat, doodling on his notepad.

Several minutes passed, and Kexez grew bored in his seat, He simply sat there, watching the other three. His mind started to wander, back to yesterday, the 13th Order-

He jolted himself back to reality. "Not the time to think of that." He had his eyes closed, and was suddenly aware of his surroundings. The place was now much messier than before. Naxell had fallen of his seat, and now lay face flat on the floor. He quickly rose from his seat and kneeled over him. Rose rushed from the bathroom door to his side. He turned him over, and Kerex gave a heavy groan. His nose was streaming blood.

He stood as Kerex rushed behind him. He stared out the window beside the seat where Naxell sat. "Crap! Not them again!" He sprinted as fast as he could to the pilot seat.

Kexez approached the window. It was covered it soot from smoke that seemed to billow from the side of the ship. As the smoke parted, Kexez saw three ships from afar.

"Kexez! Man the weapons! You're the only one who's capable of using them!" Kerex yelled from the pilot seat. He had disengaged the auto pilot and was steering the ship away from their attackers, dodging their attacks.

"W-where is it?" Kexez stammered, as a flash of red light zoomed by the ship.

"Just go take the stair in the back!"

Kexez ran to the winding steel staircase and hastily climbed it. He almost fell over as another impact rattled the ship.

"Hurry!"

Kexez opened the hatch door at the end, and found a chair, much like the pilot seat, in front of of several buttons. He sat down, and immediately a U-shaped wheel and holographic HUD popped up. On the HUD displayed their enemies: three large menacing ships. A cross-hair was flying across the screen. Lined on the corners of the HUD were smaller screens showing random numbers and devices. He found them dizzying. The wheel in front of him had two red buttons.

A cross-hair, two red buttons, a wheel-couldn't be more simpler than that.

He yanked the wheel to the left as the HUD showed their attackers were to the left. When he got a clear aim, he pressed the the left button. The sound of some sort of weapon sounded. One of the ships was now careening out of control. Kexez took aim again.

Kexez fired rapidly at their pursuers as Kerex steered the ship out of the line of fire. He weaved through the asteroids to escape them. Kexez was having a hard time aiming with all the weaving. Luckily, it was soon over as one of Kexez's misfires hits an asteroid, sending it's debris at them. Soon they were lost in the giant mass.

"Great shooting!" Kerex's voice rose from an intercom beside him.

"Hehe, thanks. How's Naxell?" He said remembering his friend.

"Him? Well, his nose is still bleeding, but at least he's standing."

Kexez sat back on the chair and inhaled deeply. He hadn't felt that much excitement for a while. He stretched.

"Hey, if this thing needs another person to man the turret..." Kexez questioned.

"Well, usually that's automated to 'destroy everything in its path' mode, but it's busted."

He could see Twilight Town not far ahead. He stretched again, but this time his hand hit something. He looked up, and saw he had pressed a large red button, with the words "Last Resort" printed faintly on it.

"Ummm... Kerex? I... accidentally pressed a button that read 'Last Resort.' Should I be worr-"

"WHAT! YOU'VE BEST BE JOKING!" Kerex yelled into the intercom that it gave a whee noise.

Suddenly, a blast louder than anything he had ever heard sounded. He could see a laser larger than the ship itself firing continuously into space. The lights started to flicker, the HUD disappeared and he could hear Kerex's fading voice on the intercom.

"CRaP, cRap, CrAP! ThIs iS WoRSe tHan BeINg AtTacKeD!"

The ship drifted to the right and started to spin. Kexez straped himself on the seat just as the ship turned upside down. It started to spin even more violently, as it went down, down, down...

Massive... headache...

Frickin'... projects...

Sorry... if it... took so long...