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"…Hey, that was uncalled for!" Axel said as he saw Saix down the hallway.
"I warned you to keep out of this," Saix said not bothering to turn toward Axel.
"And I told you I can't. I have to know what Xion's deal is," Axel objected. "Why can't you be straight with me for once?"
Saix finally turned to face the redhead. "Just like you're always honest with me?"
Axel rubbed the back of his neck uneasily. "Ok, you've got me there," he said quietly.
"Xion has no right to be among our number," Saix continued.
"Why not?" Axel growled.
Saix looked up at Kingdom Hearts. "What is it you two see in that thing? Just look at it," he said walking away.
Axel approached Roxas the following morning. "Hey Roxas," he greeted.
"Find out anything about Xion?" Roxas asked hopefully.
"I talked to Saix," Axel began.
Roxas gasped as if he was actually surprised Axel had done what he said he would. "Really! What did he say?"
Axel looked away. "His…his lips were sealed," he said slowly. "Sorry, man, I tried."
Roxas hung his head. "That's ok," he said sadly.
"But he did say he would take back calling her broken…if she proves herself more capable going forward. The best thing you can do for her now is keep up the good work."
Roxas laughed. "I will! Thanks, Axel. That's great news!' he said walking toward Saix for his mission for the day.
Axel sighed once Roxas was out of hearing distance. "Ugh, sorry, Roxas…"
"Hey! Wait up!" Demyx called to Xerla.
She turned around, her eyes narrowed. "What do you want?"
Demyx felt like he'd been slapped. Her voice had changed. It had even less emotion than before if it even had any. Her eyes were cold, but held no emotion. It had been a week since he had seen her.
"Ugh, I was just wondering where you've been all week."
She crossed her arms over her chest. "Why should it matter? The only thing that should be number one in your mind is doing missions, nothing else."
Demyx stayed silent, staring at her.
She huffed angrily and pushed past him. "And if you must know, I've been training with the Superior."
He watched as she walked into the Grey Area and up to Saix to get her mission. No wonder she was acting like that. She'd been training with Xemnas. He sighed and went to see what type of mission he'd be doing today. Ever since she had disappeared, Demyx had been sent mainly on recon missions. It seemed like she had brought out the best in him…
Suddenly, Axel walked down the hallway toward him. It'd been such a long time since they'd talk to each other. Actually, Demyx hadn't even spoken to him.
"Uh, hi…Axel," Demyx said quietly looking at the ground.
Axel barely glanced at him. "What's up, Dem?"
"Uh…We haven't talked in a while…and…and I needed to show you something a long time ago, but you were always busy…with Roxas and Xion," Demyx said sadly.
"Well, sorry, Demyx. I've had missions to do, too. It's just not like the old days. It's busier and I have Roxas and Xion now. A lot's going on," Axel tried to explain.
"I have a lot going on, too…"
"So what did you want to show me?" Axel asked.
Demyx reached into his shirt and pulled out his necklace, the bubble holding Xarla's Heart.
Axel's eyebrow rose. "What about it?"
"The first time I put it on, I had a flashback of when my heart was stolen…"
Axel's eyes widened, but he hid his surprise quickly. "And…?"
"I just wanted to see if it would work for you. Would you try it on?" Demyx asked taking off the necklace and handing it hopefully to Axel.
Sighing, Axel took the necklace and clasped it around his neck. Immediately, Demyx saw his friend's eyes cloud over.
"So you two really wanna sneak in this place don't you? This is, what, the fifth time this week?"
The redheaded boy stuck his tongue out at the Eyepatch man. "What's it to you, man?" This was the first time the Eyepatch man himself had caught them. Before it had been the two guards, the one with short, wavy orange hair and the long black dreadlocks, who had thrown them out, literally.
Eyepatch man frowned. "It wastes time we cannot afford to lose. It's time for the disturbances to end."
The boy with blue hair behind the redheaded boy crossed his arms over his chest. "Come on, Lea, I think we should leave."
Lea growled in frustration. "We'll be back, right, Isa?" he whispered to his friend.
"Maybe another day, just not today," Isa said out of the corner of his mouth.
Suddenly, a mischievous grin slid onto Eyepatch man's scarred face. "If you two really want to see what's going on in here…"
"No, we were just passing through…every single day," Lea said irritably.
Isa smirked at his friend's remark.
Eyepatch man opened the large door to the castle. "Well, I could pull a few strings. Come on in."
Lea's and Isa's eyes grew wide. "Are you serious, man?" Lea asked in amazement.
"Sure, dude, follow me."
Eyepatch man showed them down the dark hallways to a wide room.
"Here, we are experimenting with creatures of darkness without a heart called Heartless. It is against Master Ansem's wishes, but we are learning a lot," Eyepatch man explained.
"What exactly do you study here?" Isa asked looking around skeptically.
"We're studying the heart. Master Ansem is planning on halting our research, but Xahanort plans to go against his wishes and push our research even further. Care to see?"
"Sure, why not?" Lea replied taking out his shields. "Let's see if I can beat this so called 'Heartless'. Bring 'em on!"
"With pleasure," Eyepatch man said pushing a button that opened a small door. Ten small black creatures with yellow eyes appeared.
"What? This is all I have to fight? You trying to bore me, man?" Lea asked throwing his shields at the first two Heartless. The shields returned to his hands as he jumped away from the claws trying to scratch him. He threw his shields four more times and took the last eight Heartless out.
"Let's see how you do against these," Eyepatch man snarled pushing another button.
These Heartless were more human-like standing eye to eye with Lea. They slunk into the ground just as Lea threw one of his shields. It clattered to the ground as it hit the other side of the room. He threw the second one at the ground where the shadow was. It hit the ground doing no damage to the heartless. The Heartless suddenly jumped up and blew Lea back with incredible force. He cried out as he was thrown back and hit the wall.
"Braig, what in the world is going on in here?" a voice called from the other side of the door.
Eyepatch man, or Braig, switched the lock on the door and pushed another button. "Experimenting, master, no need to worry."
Suddenly, ten more of the larger Heartless appeared and advanced on Lea and Isa.
"You see, boys, Heartless, no having hearts, go after people who do have hearts."
Isa backed up against the wall. "What happens after your heart's stolen?" he asked nervously his voice shaking slightly.
"That's what we're experimenting here. Thanks so much for stopping by."
One of the Heartless grabbed Lea's collar and threw him to the other side of the room where he hit the wall again and was momentarily paralyzed.
"Lea!" Isa cried trying to get to his friend. He grabbed Lea's shoulders and shook him violently. "Lea, you ok! C'mon, wake up!"
One of the Heartless went for Lea, but Isa jumped in the way. He grabbed one of Lea's shields to try and protect the two of them. The Heartless easily knocked it out of the way and grabbed for Lea. Isa jumped in the way so that the Heartless grabbed him instead.
Lea groaned and sat up. "Hey! Let go of him!" he croaked trying to get to Isa.
All of a sudden, Isa was unconscious and thrown to the ground. A pink glittery thing floated out of his chest. The door to the room was kicked down.
"What is going on in here!" a voice asked angrily. "Braig, what are doing to these boys!"
Lea couldn't see where the voice was coming from. He was surrounded by the Heartless. One grabbed him and suddenly, everything went black.
"W-what did you do, Braig…?"
Axel blinked a few times. Wordlessly, he handed Demyx back the necklace.
"Axel?" Demyx asked nervously seeing all the color drained from Axel's face. "D-did something happen?"
"I just need to go to my room right now, Dem. I-I'll see you later, ok?"
"Sure Axel, see ya."
AD: That wasn't what really happened to them. I just made that up. And sorry if my facts weren't right, I just made up a lot of what happened to them. Thanks. Here's the next part.
Today his mission was to go to a new world. Roxas walked out of his portal in front of a bunch of rock formations and exotic plants. At his back was a long stretch of water.
"So this is Never Land," he said looking around. "What was that Heartless I'm looking for called again? A Wavecrest? It's gotta be around here somewhere."
He walked around for a little, passing through two very tall formations. He heard a voice on the other side.
"Faster, Smee! Put your back into it!" the voice ordered.
Roxas hid behind a fern and watched as two pirate-like figures dug a hole. Well, one was digging, the other, what looked like the captain, held a map.
"Aye, aye, Captain Hook!" Smee answered.
Captain Hook looked at his map, grooming his black mustache with his hook that replaced his hand. "There's no mistaking it this time! The treasure's most certainly here!"
Smee smiled slightly. "That would be a nice change from the last dozen places, eh, Captain? And with the luck you had finding all those treasure maps at once, we'll be rich in no time!"
Captain Hook laughed. "Heh heh…some poor fool must be cursing himself now for losing 'em."
Treasure maps, Roxas wondered watching Smee dig.
"Enough blabbering, Mr. Smee! Get that shovel digging!" Captain Hook ordered.
"Aye, aye, sir!" Smee replied. "Captain! Captain, I've struck something!"
"Oh! Haha! Show me what manner of treasure we've found!"
Smee opened the small chest.
"Blast! Another dead end!" Hook cursed.
"Now, now, don't you worry, Captain," Smee said hopefully. "We still got a whole pile of other maps to follow."
"Confound it… If we don't find the right one soon, someone else could walk off with me treasure." Suddenly, darkness enveloped Hook. "That gold is mine! Nobody else can have it! Nobody!"
"C-captain?" Smee asked uneasily.
Three Heartless popped out and the darkness around Hook vanished.
"Gah! More Heartless?" Hook wailed."Run, Smee!"
"Yikes! Aye, aye sir!" Smee agreed following the fleeing captain.
Roxas watched them run away. "Good, now's my chance to take out those Heartless," he said leaping at the Heartless and slashing through the Heartless.
He approached the chest that was spilling darkness. "Junk and more junk…" he said looking at the chest down in the hold. "So why'd those Heartless pop up like that? Was this 'treasure' some kind of trap? Or did something else cause them to show up? Something about that guy did seem a little…off." He turned to look at the Pirate ship in the distance. "Hmm… Is that their ship?" he wondered.
Since there was no other way to go, Roxas jogged over to the ledge of land the led to the ship. "Whoa," he gasped as a small fairy almost ran into him, or flew. She flew away a couple feet. While she was out there Roxas had a vision of that boy looking at the same fairy. He sighed as she flew back. Would these visions never go away?
The fairy flew around him. "Umm…Can I help you?" he offered. The fairy pointed towards the ship. "You…want me to go to that ship?" She nodded. "But how? It's too far." The fairy pointed to her wings. "I can't just sprout wings and fly there."
The fairy thought for a moment. Then, she flew around him once more. A bunch of sparkly stuff fell on him.
"Hey, what is this stuff?" he asked. "It's glowing…"
The fairy pointed to the ship again and did a small jumping action before pointing back to him.
Roxas nervously looked over the edge. "Y-you want me to jump?"
She nodded.
"Wait…Are you...are you saying I can fly?"
She nodded again.
"Well…all right…I believe you," Roxas said.
He closed his eyes and behind his closed lids he pictured the boy doing the same. With a deep breath, Roxas, and the boy, jumped over the edge. Before hitting the water, they flew up into the sky. The boy vanished after that.
"I-I did it!" Roxas shouted miraculously. "I can fly!" The fairy flew over to him. "But…was it just that stuff you sprinkle on me?"
She nodded and flew off.
"Um…goodbye," he called to her. "So now what? Should I go to the ship? …No, I'm here to take out that Heartless. I feel bad not helping her, but I can't risk being spotted. The mission comes first," he said and flew off in search of his Heartless.
He searched every hole on top of the tall rock formations for the Wavecrest. Suddenly the Heartless appeared. He finished it off and made his way back to the portal.
"Hmm…She went to that ship all by herself. I hope she's ok," Roxas said to himself. "Maybe I should have gone with her…Saix wouldn't like it if I got mixed up in anything unrelated to the mission." He turned back to the portal. "But then again, without her, I never would've found the target. I wonder why she picked me…" He smiled as he floated off of the ground. "It's like…It's like she knew I would believe her- that I could fly. Funny…I almost feel like I've done it before…" He planted his feet back on the ground and walked through the portal to the Clocktower.
"All done with work?" Axel asked when he saw Roxas.
"Yup," Roxas said cheerfully. Axel came over to sit beside him. "Axel, you're not gonna believe this: I flew today."
"Flew?" Axel asked puzzled.
Roxas laughed. "Yeah, like a bird! Well…sort of. It's hard to explain…"
Axel grinned. "I can imagine."
"There's just no way to describe it. I've been waiting all day to tell you and Xion!"
"Right…" Axel said looking at him out of the corner of his eyes.
"Flying felt so natural…like I'd done it before. Weird, huh?" Roxas asked looking at Axel hoping he would somehow have the answers.
Axel stayed silent looking at the sun.
"I wish Xion would wake up so I could tell her all about it," Roxas whispered. He also wished Axel would talk to him. Axel remained silent as Roxas finished his Ice cream.
"Sora!"
Roxas was watching Xion. A pile of seashells were beside her pillow. Suddenly, her eyes flew open and she sat up quickly.
"Whoa!" Roxas cried in surprise. "Xion…Good morning."
"Morning…" Xion greeted groggily.
Roxas smiled. "You startled me."
"S-sorry…" Xion apologized. "Huh?" she asked looking at the pile of seashells. She laughed. "You brought me seashells." She picked one up. Closing her eyes she held it up to her ear.
"Do you hear it?" Roxas asked.
Xion nodded. "Yeah, the sound of waves," she said smiling before laying it back with the others. She turned to Roxas. "How long was I asleep?"
"About twenty days," Roxas answered.
Xion gasped. "That long!" she exclaimed.
"Yeah; me and Axel were getting worried" Roxas replied.
"I'm sorry," Xion whispered hanging her head, "I feel bad. Kind of….weird that we can feel anything at all, huh? Without hearts to feel with."
Roxas nodded. "Yeah…"
"Hey, don't you have work!" Xion asked suddenly.
"Huh? Oh, I'm about to head out," Roxas answered.
"Can I come, too?" Xion asked hopefully.
"But…don't you need more rest?" Roxas objected.
"After sleeping for three weeks? I'll be fine. C'mon, take me with you."
Roxas laughed. "All right… Sure."
They walked out of the room and together made their way into the Grey Area. Saix approached them. Roxas held out a hand in front of her protectively. Xion pulled her hood up shielding her face.
"Well, well, it lives," he sneered. "There's just no keeping you down."
"Saix, I want to go with Roxas today on his mission," Xion said bravely.
"You belong in your room," Saix said irritated.
Axel walked over. "Oh, hey Xion!" he greeted. "About time you crawled out of bed."
Xion smiled and took her hood down. "Morning Axel," she said cheerfully.
"Roxas will team up with Axel today, as scheduled. Xion, I'm afraid I neglected to pencil you in," Saix explained.
Xion shook her head. "Don't keep me pent up in here. I need the exercise," she said trying to be reasonable.
Axel looked at Saix. "I'll look after her. I promise not to let her out of my sight," he promised. Saix blinked at him. He noticed a new sense of guard up around the red headed Nobody, especially whenever he was around him.
"Hmm…" Saix said thoughtfully. He turned and started to walk away. "Fine. Go, if that's what suits you."
Roxas and Xion nodded their thanks to Axel who smiled down at them.
"Let's go, huh? Before Saix changes his mind!" he said before walking away toward Saix.
Axel, Roxas and Xion walked through the portal to Twilight Town.
"This should be fun, huh? Tripling up like this," Xion said once the portal had closed.
"Yeah, I think this is my first three-man mission," Roxas added.
Axel chuckled. "Just remember, it's still a mission. We're not on a field trip, guys," he said.
Xion laughed at him. "Yeah, yeah. It sure is nice to be back on my feet."
Axel looked at her frowning. "Just don't push it, you hear me? We'll pick up the slack," he warned.
Xion nodded up at him. "I hear you. Thanks, guys."
They went down to the Sandlot where they encountered a Dual Blade, a large Heartless with fiery blades for hands. Once it was defeated, Roxas looked over at Xion who was looking pale. She caught him looking, grinned, and wiped the sweat off her brow.
"Time to find Heartless number two," Axel said not noticing Xion.
They nodded and followed Axel into town. From there they went to the Station Plaza. As they were entering the area, Xion suddenly fainted right behind Axel and Roxas.
"Xion!" Roxas cried out in alarm.
It's my lucky charm. Be sure to bring it back to me.
Roxas rubbed his eyes. This vision showed the boy disappearing then, what seemed like something previous, a girl gave him a charm.
Suddenly, the second Heartless popped up in front of him. Roxas looked back to where Axel held Xion.
"I've got Xion," he said, "you take out the target!"
"Ok!" Roxas said turning and summoning his Keyblade.
With a few strikes of his Keyblade and some of his magic, Roxas defeated the target. He ran over to where Axel was with Xion.
"Sora…" Xion whispered.
"Xion!" Roxas called to her.
"It's ok," Axel reassured, "she's not hurt."
"But Axel-"
"Let's just go back, all right?" Axel picked up Xion and opened a portal. They were walking along the stairway just outside the castle where they ran into Saix.
"Well, that didn't take long. Did it break again?" he asked.
"She's not an 'it'!" Roxas growled.
Axel walked up alongside Saix still carrying Xion. "Keep your mouth shut," he hissed before continuing up the stairs with Roxas following him.
Saix smiled and closed his eyes."You have changed…" he whispered to himself. He turned to the way Axel had left. "Something at Castle Oblivion changed you. Does the past mean nothing to you now?
Axel and Roxas watched Xion in her bed.
"Are you worried about her, Axel?" Roxas asked his eyes never leaving Xion's limp form.
"Of course I am," Axel said.
"Doesn't seem like you," Roxas said smiling.
Axel frowned. "What do you mean?"
"You hate complications."
Axel thought about this for a moment before looking back at the blond. "Roxas…" he started, "I meet up with you two every day for ice cream, right? Why do I do that?"
Roxas looked up at him. "Huh?"
Axel nodded. "I mean, you think about it, I don't need to go out of my way, right?"
Roxas looked down. "I guess not."
"You wanna know why I do?" Axel asked. "Because you're my best friend. The three of us…we're inseparable."
"We are?"
Axel smiled and nodded. "That's right, get it memorized. And you know what? Best Friends are willing to deal with complications."
"Yeah…" Roxas grinned. "Yeah, you said it!"
They suddenly heard laugher from Xion's bed. Xion opened her eyes and looked at them.
"Thanks, Axel. You're sweet," she said.
Axel rubbed the back of his neck in embarrassment.
"Feeling better?" Roxas asked.
Xion grinned. "I just got a little dizzy. Sorry to worry you guys."
"Try not to scare us like that anymore, huh?" Axel said rolling his eyes, but smiling nonetheless.
Xion nodded. "Ok."
"And you take it easy today," Axel continued.
"I will. Thanks."
Xerla whirled around upon hearing something behind her. "Who's there?" she called out in a warning voice. She turned and saw that boy from before. Demyx. Superior had said to avoid him. So what was she supposed to do when he was following her around like this? Superior was right about the small number of Nobodies of Organization XIII that actually thought they could feel. So why was she here? To prove to them that their feelings didn't exist and to show that Darla, or whatever her name was, no longer existed.
"Hey, Xerla," Demyx called from behind her. "You seemed to have been avoiding me lately. Something the matter?"
Why would he care? He's just confusing himself thinking that he cares for my wellbeing. Well, we both know what a lie that is.
Xerla had just been taking a stroll walking up and down the dark streets of the World That Never Was. She was training by attacking any Neoshadows that lurked around this seemingly abandoned city
Her eyes narrowed as she turned on Demyx. "What's it to you?" she asked. She had to refrain from hissing. That would be showing emotion she didn't have. Why show a weakness when you don't have to? Demyx had basically revealed all of his during her first and second encounters with him.
Even with the emotion sucked out of her words, Xerla couldn't help but to smirk when she saw Demyx's stricken face.
"I just wanted to know how you were…" Demyx said quietly. "Especially since you're new to the Organization and all," he continued, mocking.
Xerla barely blinked. "I thank you for your concern, nine, but it is not needed," she shot back at him trying not to show her anger. "You're better off not wasting your time on me. I know who you're looking for and let me tell you something. She's not coming back. I don't care what you do. I am Xerla…and I'm no friend of yours."
Demyx stared at Xerla's retreating figure. He didn't know exactly how to feel. Anxious, to see how it would all play out. Lonely, because he no longer had a friend to talk to. Scared, of the lack of emotion in her words: no Nobody, except for Xemnas at times, had ever acted like that. Sad, because this probably wouldn't turn out like Clair had. And, finally, heartbroken, (or whatever), since nobody loved him…
How can something so wrong, so dark, ever be right again…?
It seems no light could ever penetrate a looming darkness this deep.
AD: Aww, so sad! Poor Demy…I hope things work out in the end. Well, we'll see how it all turns out. Hope you like it. I also hope you like the longer chapter idea. I do. Tell me what you think. Thanks for reading!
