Roxas was able to escape to his room just in time for his meeting with Marluxia. It wasn't even 5 minutes after he had returned till an attendant came to his room to summon him.

The servant entered the room after giving 2 knocks, not even waiting for a reply, and turned to Roxas.

"Marluxia is waiting" she told him sternly and opened the door, as if saying 'Let's go'.

Wasn't as cheerful as the other servant, Lexi, who he saw earlier that day, but what can you expect from an Organization member. Roxas rolled his eyes at her motion and hopped off of his bed.

"I'm ready" he replied

OOO

The room he was taken to wasn't as large as Roxas would picture for a battle arena, but compared to a Struggle battle field, it was a pretty decent size.

The floors were white marble with pearl white walls. Along the walls were tall white pillars that connected the floor to the ceiling and produced the only light in the whole area.

At the far end, Roxas saw Marluxia smiling and standing up against a wall at the opposite side of where he was. It kind of made Roxas feel uncomfortable to see this guy smiling at him like that, but he ignored it and walked to the middle of the room.

The doors behind him slammed shut and Marluxia then walked towards Roxas.

"Now that we are alone" he continued to smile "let's see what you can really do"

'Well, we all know that you can creep out other people' Roxas thought and stood his ground and got prepared for anything.

"Xemnas told me to go easy on you" Marluxia continued and began to walk around Roxas, as if observing him "but I have other plans in mind for a chosen wielder like you"

Roxas noticed Marluxia standing right behind him and paid close attention to what he was trying to do. It was at that moment that Roxas heard him pull out his pink scythe and jumped around fast enough to miss on of his attacks.

"You trying to attack from behind?" Roxas pointed out "That's not very noble of you"

Marluxia shrugged his comment off and got prepared for another move.

"In the real world, no one plays by the rules." He explained "So, don't expect nobility from us. Now then, it's you're turn"

Roxas raised an eyebrow in confusion.

"My turn?" he questioned

"Yeah. Let's see that beautiful Oathkeeper of yours. Only you can call on it"

Now Roxas was beginning to find this guy talking nonsense. He's always known the Organization to use magic; that was one of the reasons everyone feared them, but to create object out of air? Was it possible?

Roxas then stared down at his right hand.

"An Oathkeeper?" he asked himself

He tried to imagine it but had no idea how it looked. He was on limited time too now but he held on to whatever idea he had and gripped his hand tightly forming a fist. He closed his eyes to help with the visualization and for a minute something happened. In his fist, he could feel an object come into his grasp. The Oathkeeper, his chosen weapon had come into his hand. Roxas gave off a small smile expecting a compliment, but instead, Marluxia just sighed with annoyance.

"Good to know I don't need to teach you have to summon" he said and walked up to where Roxas was standing. "Now then, what do you know about fighting?"

"I know to not get hit" Roxas replied hoping it was right but Marluxia's blank expression said otherwise.

"It's about being the one doing all the hitting and attacking." Marluxia added "If you are attacking quickly and not giving your enemy a chance to fight back, then the battle is won."

"What if I get hurt and slow down?"

"Once you find yourself deeply into it, you won't even notice the pain"

Roxas couldn't help but think about Namine as he lectured on about fighting techniques. His words kind of went through one ear and out the other as time went on. Right now, he just wanted to get out of there. Out of this town, with Namine at his side. He just wanted them to be safe, together and free.

"Ready?" Marluxia asked, breaking Roxas' train of thought.

"Huh? Oh yeah. Definitely"

With that said, he got into position to prepare for his opponents attacks. And it was not long till Marluxia ran up, quick as lightening and slashed Roxas into the ground. With his Oathkeeper still in hand, Roxas slowly got up and rubbed his stomach while Marluxia let out a sly smile.

"This is going to be a long day" Marluxia commented.

OOOOO

After Roxas left, Namine fixed herself and her room. It was a bit of work and took a decent hour but she felt stronger as she thought about her and Roxas' plan of escape. It filled her with joy to know that by tomorrow she could be out of this place forever. Yet, what she had to soon do was nothing to be proud or happy about.

Once both rooms were tidy and clean of blood, glass and liquor, Namine called her servant, Lexi, to bring both Namie's to her.

"Are you sure you are feeling up to both of them?" Lexi asked unsure "They are a bit of a handful"

"Yep! I want to spend as much time as possible with them. In fact, I want some of their toys here too. And, do you think we can have a final sleepover?" Namine asked enthused and excited.

Lexi looked at the smiling Namine confused.

"Uh, a sleepover?" She repeated "Well, I don't see why not so…"

"Yes!" Namine giggled and clapped "Go get them now! I can't wait to see them!"

"Yes I see. Umm, Vexen didn't give you any medication did he?"

"Of course not. I just happen to realize that I shouldn't mope at my death and should enjoy the ones that make me happy now."

Lexi then smiled, convinced, and turned back to the door.

"Very well. I will escort them here now. I'll also tell the other maids to not come in here for tonight so you won't be disturbed"

"Excellent! I will see you soon then."

The door opened slowly as Lexi smiled back at Namine and exited the room. Once the door slammed shut, Namine immediately felt like sobbing as she let her false smile turn into a frown.

"I hope you're right about this Roxas" she whispered to herself.

OOOOO

Back at Roxas and Marluxia's battle, Roxas looked a bit beat. He had bruises all over his face and a few cuts along his body that torn through his cloak. Marluxia did not look as bad but was not left untouched either. He had his share of hits and cuts as well, and was exactly where Roxas wanted. He was getting tired of swinging and jumping around as Roxas had predicted, which was perfect for his next plan.

"Getting tired?" Marluxia smiled as they circled around each other, waiting for either one's next attack.

"No" Roxas breathed out hard to make his role more realistic.

"Good" he groaned and charged at him.

Marluxia struck his scythe under Roxas, aiming at his ankles, but Roxas jumped high enough to avoid the attack and came down on him from above.

His opponent turned away as Roxas slammed down to the floor and swung at his back. With a quick duck, Roxas hit the ground fast and kicked at Marluxia's legs to make him trip. As he fell to the floor, he swung again at Roxas but he was getting faster at his moves and rolled away.

After a while of dodging attacks, Roxas new it was time to start doing some of his own damage and got up to face his opponent at the opposite side of the area.

"I'm tired of playing around" Roxas said to him and turned to the exit doors.

That was when Marluxia, for the first time, began to question Roxas' actions.

"Who said we were playing around?" he asked and stood up.

"I did" Roxas replied sternly and continued to walk to the exit.

Marluxia began to get angry at him.

"You have 2 seconds to get back here Roxas!" he yelled out

"Ok. 1….2…" he smiled without looking back.

The Oathkeeper faded from his hand as Marluxia ran up to him from behind. Roxas was clever enough to still have a grip of his weapon as he listened to Marluxia's footsteps get louder as he ran up to him. It was pure instinct for Roxas as he quickly turned around and blocked Marluxia's pink scythe from crashing into his skull.

Marluxia found himself losing control over Roxas' strength but then his eyes widened in shock as he peered into the youths eyes and saw them swirling with anger and rage. Just as they did back in his battle with Xemnas all those years ago.

"You… you…" he began but he got disrupted as he instead coughed up blood.

Marluxia lost his grip on his scythe and let it disappear from his fingers as he looked down at his waist. Roxas' weapon did not block his own, but was driven into his own body. And not even with his Oathkeeper, but the Keyblade.

He fell to his knees as Roxas narrowed his eyes at him. In one quick motion, Roxas pulled out the Keyblade from Marluxia's body.

"I told you I was done playing" Roxas told him sternly and turned back to the doors.

He heard Marluxia's body collapsed onto the floor, leaving his body to drown in a pool of his own blood. Once Roxas was out and the doors were closed, he broke the keypad on the side, preventing further entry inside.

"Now that that's done, time to find Vexen's lab" he told himself and ran off.

OOOO

Nighttime soon fell and everyone in the mansion began to go to sleep, except for Namine and the 2 younger Namies, who were to busy having fun to go to bed.

After playing games, reading ghost stories, and baking cookies, the three girls were anything but tired. Namine was finding herself having fun for once with the others, but tried to not think about her happiness so much as she reminded herself of the plan.

'They are not sisters… or even family' she would remind herself 'they are Nobodies, so don't start getting attached now'

The 3 girls continued to laugh, play and even paint together as Namine collected her thoughts, and tried not to express her true feelings.

"Geez Namine. Why is it that you can draw so well?" the older Namie asked her as she compared her stick figures to Namine's well sketch and oil painted sunset.

"I just practice a lot," Namine lied because she knew the real reason was actually because she was made differently and her skills in painting took over her skills of dancing, unlike her younger self's.

When she finished with her conversation with Namie, she looked over to see the youngest to the side finger painting and surprisingly not making a mess. The manner lessons must have really grown on her. She then glanced above at the wall and looked at the clock and noticed it was almost time to meet up with Roxas.

"I'm going to get some chocolate milk and those cookies we made from the kitchen. I'll be right back" Namine told the 2 girls and put down her paintbrush and took off her painting apron.

The older Namie nodded, still looking at her painting, while the youngest smiled with glee at the sound of cookies with milk.

"WEEE! Cookies!" she yelled in excitement.

Namine smiled back and then left the room. After traveling down a few hallways and staircases, she began to feel as if the mansion was dead. She knew it was not very late into the night, but it felt like midnight with the quietness and dark empty corridors. It began to scare her as she thought about something hiding in the corners and jumping on her. Everything created shadows as the moonlight shown on them. It made her feel as if everything was alive and watching her. After all, she was in a very tight position and was being monitored around the clock. She was actually quite surprised that no one has found out that she had left her room yet.

As she cowardly ran down the stairs, Namine turned to go into another hallway. The hallway was long and had many large windows that reached from the floor to the ceiling. They were closed and were covered with long heavy velvet curtains that prevented any moonlight to enter the room.

With caution, she backed into one of the windows and looked around.

"Roxas?" she whispered nervously "Roxas?"

She continued to look around the darkness for any movement or sound but nothing happened. It was then that she began to get a little creeped out at the darkness and backed more into the windows till she could feel their fabric against her back.

"Oh Roxas," she told herself "where are…?"

But before she could finish her statement, a hand reached out from around her waist and grabbed her wrist. With one violent pull, the attacker pulled Namine behind the curtains, where she was even more blinded.

Namine's first impression was to scream and yell, but whoever pulled her in, immediately began to kiss her hard to prevent her from saying anything.

'This is Roxas' she smiled, recognizing his kiss, and kissed him back and wrapped her arms around his neck.

Roxas replied to her kisses by holding her closer till he could feel her heartbeats. He let go of her wrist and moved one hand under her dress and let it slowly caress her thigh. Namine felt weak by his touch as he pressed on, but she knew that they could lose themselves by doing this and hated herself as she push him away from her.

"No" she whispered and placed both of her hands on his chest. "Not now. We have to remember our plan"

"I do remember." He breathed with a sly smile "But I want you first" he begged and put both of his hands on her bottom and pulled her close to him again and made his kisses even harder on her.

It was incredible to be in the arms of someone who truly did care for you, and to be kissed and touched so passionately, and it was driving Namine crazy since she knew she had to make him stop. It became especially hard when she began to feel his lips slowly beginning to leave hers and move down her chin and lightly suckle at her neck.

"Wait…" she breathed hard trying to ignore the pleasure, but just couldn't set her mind straight as she began to get mesmerized "Roxas…! Oh Roxas"

Her head fell back in surrender as she allowed him to move down to her chest and place small heated kisses around her collar. He ran his hand through the back of her hair and held onto to her tightly, as if he was a vampire feasting on his meal of blood.

Roxas continued to delight Namine while one of his hands went into his cloak pocket and took out a small glass bottle and placed it into her hand. Once she gripped onto it, he looked up to meet her eyes and pressed his forehead against hers.

"Just 2 drops into their drinks" he slowly whispered to her.

Namine looked down at the bottle, even though she could not clearly see it, a little curious and nodded.

"Where did you get these?" she asked

"I found them in Vexen's lab."

"What about Marluxia?"

"He's not going to be a problem anymore"

Namine felt horrible to hear his words, but at the same time relieved. She always felt that Marluxia was the toughest on her for some reason and was always on her back. He was crude, violent and a bit odd compared to the other members. She was glad he was gone.

"Alright. Where do I meet you later?" she asked.

"I'll be waiting here in 30 minutes. Once you're done, we need to see Vexen."

Namine nodded in agreement and held the bottles more tightly before Roxas placed a hand behind her neck and pulled himself in for a quick kiss. Once apart, she smiled and exited from behind the dark curtains and ran to the kitchen.

Authors Note:

I know is an "ehh" chapter but it's just some stuff that needed to happen before everything gets crazy.

The good news? Only 2-3 more chapters left. …I swear!