Thanks for the reviews! I really appreciate it. I finally got the next chapter up (I had a bit of a writer's block for this). Can't think of anything else to say at the moment, other than that I will try to have Lexaeus, Luxord and Larxene more often in the next few chapters.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Kingdom Hearts (2).
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Zexion's mind was racing, trying to figure out how to get away from an obviously enraged Saix. Only a few possibilities seemed reasonable to the Cloaked Schemer, and he decided that telling the truth (most of it) would be a good thing at the moment. Zexion wriggled out of Saix's grasp, and backed up against the door. Composing himself, he stared up at Saix.
"Xemnas, Marluxia, Axel, and Roxas are in the room, and Demyx apparently thinks they're all monsters, and is trying to drown them to get rid of them." Zexion told the Luna Diviner, straight-faced.
Saix stared at Zexion in silence, as Xigbar and Larxene snickered.
"Well...I think Axel and Roxas deserve it...they were trying to sneak into my room and set up some pranks to wake me up." Larxene fell silent and grinned as she heard the cries coming from inside the room.
"Why is Demyx acting strangely?" Xigbar asked.
Zexion shrugged. "He probably drank a potion that may have looked like a beverage. That wouldn't surprise me."
Vexen stared at Zexion in silent amazement. Zexion was saying all those lies so smoothly. Vexen glanced at Saix, who seemed to be considering Zexion's explanations.
"Hmm..." Siax broke off, noticing the Saix replica standing next to Vexen. He narrowed his eyes. "Why haven't you gotten rid of that replica yet?"
Sai backed away a few steps. He didn't like the expression on the other's face. When Saix moved towards him, Sai bolted off in the opposite direction. Saix summoned his claymore to give chase.
There was a long silence, then...
"Hey Zexion. I want to see what's going on in there." Larxene said suddenly
"Sure...but, you don't want to go through this door, since it seems that Demyx is flooding the place." Zexion replied.
"Then we can get there through the library." Larxene responded, and ran off in the direction of the library.
Zexion and Vexen followed after her. Zexion sighed, then glanced around. 'Xigbar's gone...must have teleported or something. Wait a minute. Larxene said the library...'
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Lexaeus was having a relaxing morning. After having gotten some coffee from the kitchen, he had headed up to the library for some peace and quiet. For the next few hours, he read a book. After a certain amount of time had passed, he started to hear what sounded like cries for help.
Lexaeus furrowed his eyebrows. Where was it coming from? It wasn't from the library...Lexaeus shook his head. He must be a little bit tired. He was probably just hearing things. He went back to his book, after having not located the source of the sounds. A few minutes went by before fresh cries for help began to invade his mind.
Lexaeus set down his book and glanced around gain. There it was...again. He couldn't be hearing things...Sighing, Leaxeus put down the book and got up. After a thorough investigation, Lexaeus stood before a plain wall. The voices seemed to be originating behind it. But how was that possible? It was just a wall...unless...
Lexaeus placed a hand against the wall, and gave it an experimental shove. To his surprise, a door opened, leading into another room. He blinked in surprise. That was...unexpected...he should remember where this room was for future reference. It would be a good place to go when Axel or Roxas decided to pull pranks.
Now that the door was open, Lexaeus could hear the voices a little more clearly, and one of them seemed to belong to Xemnas. 'What's Xemnas doing in this room? Unless it's one of the rooms that he only knows about...'
Lexaeus entered the room to find out that it was a two level room. He walked over to the balcony and glanced over it. He stared.
Xemnas wasn't the only one in the room.
Axel and Roxas were on one side of the room, arguing. Axel was holding something in his hands, and was apparently trying to convince Roxas about something. Marluxia was on the opposite side of the room with his scythe out and looking absolutely murderous. And Xemnas was in the middle of the room, trying to fend of Demyx, who was pounding him continuously with the sitar. The sitarist was yelling something about destroying all the monsters, and that he'd save Organization XIII by eliminating these beasts.
Lexaues glanced up, and saw Xigbar hanging upside down and laughing. Lexaeus shook his head. This wouldn't seem too out of the ordinary, except for the fact that the room was being flooded, and that the water level was still rising.
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Sai dashed along the hall, thinking about hiding out in Zexion's room until Saix calmed down. But Sai couldn't throw off Saix, who seemed intent on slicing him in two. Sai turned another corner, and threw himself into Zexion's room as Saix took a swing at him. Which missed it's mark. But then why was there a loud thunk? Sai glanced up and his expression changed to horror as he saw what Saix's claymore had hit. The mini refrigerator. 'Noooooo!' Sai screamed inside his head. Saix killed the fridge, which in turn would ruin all those delicious sea salt ice creams.
Saix tugged at his claymore until it came free. Stupid replica dodging like that. Saix turned around to face the replica. It was a chicken, since it was running away from a fight. Saix would put an end to its misery. What Saix hadn't been expecting was the replica dashing at him with a claymore of its own. Saix was blasted backwards into the hall as the replica roared. "YOU KILLED THE SEA SALT ICE CREAM!!!! YOU WILL PAY!!!"
Saix got to his feet in time to dodge another attack from his replica. The Luna Diviner noticed that the replica had apparently gone berserk, and that his eyes were glowing an eerie yellow. Saix blocked another attack. 'Do I look like that when I go berserk? ...He got mad over sea salt ice cream?' Saix leapt away, and he and the replica fought there way along the hallway, ignoring stares they received from Luxord, who happened to be passing by.
When the two were out of sight, Luxord shuffled a deck of cards. "...I didn't know there were two Saixs'. I wonder if that was one of the experiments that went wrong a few months ago." Shrugging, Luxord wandered off to try and find someone to play poker with.
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Lexaeus turned around when he heard other people entered the room from behind him. It was Larxene, Zexion and Vexen.
"Oh, hey Lexaeus. What are you doing in here?" Larxene asked.
"I heard calls for help, so I investigated." Lexaeus replied. He turned his attention to Zexion and Vexen. "What is going on down there?"
Seeing that Vexen wasn't going to say anything, Zexion looked up at Lexaeus. Hoping that the other wouldn't be suspicious, Zexion said, "Demyx apparently thinks everyone is a monster and is trying to drown them."
Lexaeus looked at Zexion suspiciously, but he and the others on the upper floor jumped as Demyx yelled, "DIE!!"
Xigbar, hanging upside down, was still laughing, but it had died down quite a bit. He was actually starting to look concerned. Or it could just look that way, since he wasn't right side up.
Zexion stayed back from everyone, deciding whether or not he should run away. He decided to stay, since it would be suspicious if he left the scene. And Vexen knew that it was his doing. Zexion held back a frustrated sigh, then grinned inwardly. He had found out what one of the boxes would do, so there was a 50 percent chance that Axel might be foolish enough to open it. Oh, that would be funny.
Vexen, unfortunately, noticed a the change from Zexion, and asked, "What do the boxes do?"
"Oh, well...they..." Zexion began. A terrified yelp caught his attention, as well as the others in the room.
Demyx had gotten away from beating on Xemnas and was headed towards Roxas and Axel.
"I don't want to get hit by the sitar!" Roxas yelled, frantically swimming in the opposite direction of Demyx (the water was too high for him to stand anymore).
"Leave him alone Demyx!" Axel exclaimed, chucking one of the thin boxes at Demyx.
At first, nothing happened, but then there was a huge flash, and a gust of wind which knocked everyone down. Once the flash was gone, the situation was taken in.
Axel was the first to speak after looking around. "That didn't do anything Vexen? What were you thinking?"
Vexen looked and was extremely offended. "Of course it does something!"
Axel spread his arms out and indicated the area. "What then Vexen? I don't see anything out of the ordinary. Unless it created a sea monster..."
Axel broke off as a freaked-out Roxas clambered onto him in an attempt to get out of the water. "Don't let it eat me!" Axel swayed around in the water, shaking and attempting to get Roxas down from his shoulders. "I was just kidding!"
Xemnas and Marluxia exchanged glances, then both looked up to see Xigbar laughing at them. Xemnas shook a fist at him. "Quit laughing you fool, and help!"
Xigbar pouted, but complied. Soon, a dripping wet Xemnas was glaring at Larxene, Zexion, Lexaeus and Vexen. Marluxia followed shortly after, still looking murderous.
"Hey! Don't forget about us!" Axel called up to the Freeshooter.
Axel and Roxas were up on the balcony in a matter of seconds.
All that was left on the lower level was an extremely dazed and confused Demyx, who had dismissed his sitar. He glanced up at nearly all of the organization members. "What's going on...and...why is this place flooded? Did I do that?"
"It seems that he's back to normal." Vexen commented. He gave Xigbar a sideways glance. "You should bring him up here as well."
While Xigbar went to get Demyx, everyone present, minus Vexen and Zexion, were trying to figure out what happened.
Except, Zexion noticed, Axel and Roxas, both of whom were looking at him suspiciously. Zexion began to panic when Axel began to make his way over to Xemans with an evil smirk.
Luck was with Zexion, when there was suddenly loud laughter and a horrified cry. Xigbar and Demyx.
Everyone present turned around as Xigbar brought Demyx up, who cowered behind him, blushing in embarrassment.
The good thing, Zexion noticed, was that Axel's attention had been mostly taken away from him to focus on the other.
"What's wrong?" Xemnas asked.
Xigbar had managed to control his laughter as he spoke. "Well Vexen...it seems that whatever was in that box did work."
Vexen looked suddenly intrigued. "Really, why do you say that? Demyx looks fine to me."
Xigbar pulled Demyx forward and turned him around.
There was another long pause of silence, then laughter. The box that Axel had thrown at Demyx had caused the sitarist to suddenly grow a thin, pale blue, four foot long tail.
Demyx was blushing even deeper now, but was looking on the verge of tears. Why did things like this happen to him? He always tried very hard to stay away from Vexen's laboratory, but experiments always seemed to find their way to him.
Zexion kind of felt bad, but, he considered, Axel had been the one to steal the boxes and use them.
Axel came forward and patted Demyx on the shoulder. "Sorry Dem, but you were trying to brain Roxas with your sitar...and I can't exactly use my chakrams in here...too wet."
Dmeyx managed a slight smile, before sighing miserably. Then began experimenting with the tail. It was...kind of fun. He looked at Vexen. "Is there...a way to get rid of it?" Demyx sure hoped so.
Vexen was silent a moment. "Well...I could find a way to reverse the effect, but that would probably take a few months. Otherwise, we could always surgically remove it..." He drifted off at several snickers. "What?" He snapped irritably. "I was just listing the options." He turned his attention to Demyx, who suddenly looked as if he had been asked to go swim with several bloodthirsty sharks. "Well?"
Demyx twitched, seeming to have thought of something unpleasant, and replied, "I'd...rather see if you could find a way to reverse the effect." Demyx glanced at the tail. "It isn't too bad."
"All right...if you don't mind waiting awhile..." Vexen left the room, but came back almost immediately. "Saix and the Saix replica are fighting. Should we stop them?"
Zexion dashed past Vexen, followed closely by Xemnas.
Axel stared after them for a moment, before grabbing Roxas by the arm and running too.
"A...Axel. What are you doing?!" Roxas exclaimed.
"Zexion was the one who had the replica throw us in that room, so he must have been the one that planned that and used the potions." Axel explained as he ran.
"Oh." Roxas managed to say.
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Saix was shocked. How was the replica beating him? He dodged another furious attack, and found himself trapped in a corner. Two claymores met, and both Saix and Sai were increasing pressure on the blades.
"Sai! Over here! Look!" Called Zexion.
Sai pulled away from Saix, and calmed immediately upon seeing a sea-salt ice cream.
Saix watched in amazement as the replica began eating the ice cream, looking all calm and innocent. Saix shook his head, before collapsing onto the ground in a weary heap. Why did the replica still have so much energy? Saix closed his eyes. Or maybe he was just tired from the missions he had been doing.
Xemnas glanced at the downed Saix, then over to Sai and Zexion. Okay...why were there two Saixs'? Oh, one was a replica, that was right.
"Axel, Roxas. Take Saix to his room. Now." Xemnas ordered, giving no room for arguments.
Axel and Roxas took Saix away, but Zexion gulped when he heard Axel mutter, "Just you wait." Under his breath as he passed. Maybe he'd be safer in Vexen's laboratory...
Behind Zexion, Demyx was making the tail swish back and forth, but in doing so accidentally whipped Marluxia over the head. Demyx let out a muffled yelp as Marluxia summoned his scythe and gave chase to the retreating sitarist. "Come back here Demyx! I'll take care of the tail!"
Marluxia was, for the moment, blissfully unaware that he was still wearing a very revealing pink dress. When he did realize it, he promptly retreated to his room, muttering furious curses.
Outside in the hall, Demyx had come back the way he had come, and got a sea-salt ice cream from Zexion, who seemed to have gotten some from a freezer. Demyx did hope that Vexen would find a way to get rid of the tail without having to resort to surgery. Demyx shivered. Surgery plus Vexen equaled creepiness. It wasn't that he didn't trust Vexen, it was just...creepy, that was all there was to it.
"Hey Demyx." Sai asked.
"Hmm?"
"What are you going to do about the tail?"
"I don't know. Deal with it I suppose."
Zexion hid a smile as he commented. "Well, don't let Xaldin near it. He might try to remove it with one of his lances."
Demyx choked on the ice cream, looking scared.
Sai patted him on the back. "Don't worry, I won't let anyone touch the tail."
"T...thanks."
Zexion tuned out the rest of their conversation as he tried to remember what the other two boxes did, one that was in Vexen's possession, and the other that was in Axel's. It would be interesting to see what those would do. He had known that one of the two boxes Axel had had to do with water.
As Zexion pondered this, he didn't notice Axel sneaking up from behind him, a gleeful and triumphant look on his face. He was about to grab Zexion, when Zexion suddenly vanished via portal, leaving Axel to fall face first to the ground. 'You escape...for now.'
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Yes, the chapter's ending there. So...what did you think of it? I'd appreciate any feedback or comments about how this chapter went. I hope to get the next chapter up sooner, but I'm not sure. I'll just have to see if I can think of another chapter. I do plan on putting up a one-shot Bleach story soon as well a two-part story focusing on Riku as a post KH2.
So, until next time, thanks for reading and/or reviewing!