You know... I really don't know what to say about this chapter.
Disclaimers: all things in it (except Intermezzo Cove and the OCs) are totally not mine. Kingdom Hearts included.
I think all the listening to the new artist I discovered had something to do with how this came out...
And with that in mind, I hope you enjoy!
Larxene was absolutely, positively, completely and totally pissed off.
Poor Marluxia and the Dusks had to hold on for their little Nobody lives as the furious Nymph smacked into asteroids and into other ships on her way to their destination.
"This sucks! Why do we get always get the dopey missions?" Larxene seethes, her tiny four year old body having to sit on a stack of phone books just to reach the controls.
"Well, Larxene, it's not as bad as Demyx's mission. His and Luxord's is to do recon… We've obviously been given the superior mission." Marluxia adds in with a high pitched voice, clinging desperately to his chair.
Larxene makes a scoffing noise in the back of her throat as she twists the steering wheel sharply to the right, sending two of the three Dusks slamming into one of the windows.
"Whatever! It's not like it matters, right?" Larxene grunts admittedly as a small smile spreads quietly across her face.
Soon, one of the Dusks take over when Larxene gets bored and she curls up into a chair and waits patiently for the ship to land.
"So where are we going anyway?" Larxene demands in a much more subdued voice than usual, playing with a loose strand of hair lazily.
"I think we're supposed to go pick up some herbs for Vexen or something. He says that there's a specific world that we have to go to." Marluxia explains as he stares at Xemnas's very neat handwriting.
Larxene's reaction was instantaneous.
"WHAT? We're going on an ERRAND while those little dopes get to fight Heartless? How is that fair?" Larxene shouts angrily, electricity immediately flaring up around her.
"We-well, he said it was very dangerous a-and that he could only trust us to do it!" Marluxia stammers, wincing already from anticipating Larxene's inevitable punch.
"… Whatever." Larxene murmurs, looking bored.
The rest of the trip passes in silence until they reach the small world.
Unknown World
"… This place is creepy!" Larxene says in shock as she stares around at the small town.
"Indeed…" Marluxia whistles as he crouches down to pluck a flowering plant from the ground.
He examines it and takes a look at his surroundings.
The gentle breeze that came off of the crystal blue waters surrounding a side of the small village they were standing it was sweet and smelled of fresh plants and water.
Each of the small buildings was built neatly of reddish bricks and had woven straw roofs and each one was surrounded by lush green trees and flowers; the entire town looked like it was built straight out of a storybook.
"This place is creepy! It's like all the same!" Larxene repeats, staring at the picturesque buildings in horror. Marluxia shrugs.
He actually really liked the town but he wouldn't say anything to Larxene. After all, he would be the one feeling the pain when she stabbed him for disagreeing.
"Okay, let's get the herbs and get the hell out. Like right now!" Larxene snaps, looking as if she was about to snap from all the perfectness in the town.
"Okay…" Marluxia mutters darkly as he drops his blue flower and squints into the background.
"Hello there, youngsters! Are you lost?" An old man asks from the shade of a magnificent tree, smiling at the children.
"Shuddap! I don't got time for you, old timer!" Larxene snarls but the old man just shakes his head.
"You mean "I do not have time for you, distinguished gentleman". Use proper grammar, child." The man tuts.
Larxene glares at him.
"What are you, a weirdo grammar Nazi? Let me at him, let me at him!" Larxene howls as the three Dusks that had accompanied her and Marluxia grab her arms in unison, keeping the four year old from tackling the old man and pummeling him to an electrocuted pulp.
Marluxia bows respectfully at him.
"Sir, we're looking for some very special herbs. Do you know where we may be able to buy some?" He asks in a completely sincere and polite voice.
The old man beams at him, looking impressed.
"Why, the market's right over there!" The old man says, pointing over to a small set up of stands in the middle of the town.
"Thank you." Marluxia marches off in the direction that the man had pointed to, being followed by the Dusks carrying an astonished Larxene.
"So… does this politeness stuff actually gets people to do what you want?" She asks curiously, an evil smirk already spreading across her face as she imagines the possibilities.
"Sometimes?" Marluxia allows when one of the Dusks hands him a freshly bought bottle of potion and he opens it with a quick twist of the top.
At this exact moment, Marluxia trips over a cobblestone and straight into the legs of a standing guy.
Naturally, the open bottle's contents spill all over the guy's clothes.
"What the fuck?" The guy snarls as he grabs Marluxia by the scruff of the neck and Marluxia struggles to wiggle loose from his grip.
"Leave Marly alone! …Please!" Larxene commands, putting her hands on her hips and glaring at the man as if daring him not to listen.
The only response that the guy has is to laugh in her face.
Larxene did not have a nice reaction to that.
The Castle That Never Was
As Xemnas observes his now children Organization members work in their relative missions via a series of TV screens, he notices that the phone was ringing.
Which was extremely odd, considering that they only ever used it to order take out from the Dark City underneath the Castle.
Xion, the only one close enough to answer said phone, gets up from her coloring book and grabs it.
"Hello hello! This is Xion speaking! Please leave a message at the little beep at the en- …. He's not here. No, he's in the bathroom. Huh? I don't even know what Xemnas is doing in there! I think he's got di-" The toddler says in an innocent voice.
Xemnas grabs the phone from her, gives Xion a glare and shoves it to his ear.
"Hello?" He asks, already getting a bad feeling about whoever was calling.
"Hi Xemnas!" An all too familiar duo of voices call out in unison; it was Larxene and Marluxia.
"Did you two already get back to the Castle?" Xemnas asks in shock. There was no way that they could have come from Intermezzo Cove and back in under half an hour.
"Umm… Not exactly." Larxene says in a sheepish voice.
Xemnas stares at the phone and begins to tremble; this was not boding well for the Superior.
"We're in jail!" Larxene and Marluxia say out in unison as Xemnas smacks his head into the wall, causing Saix, Vexen and Xion to jump.
"WHAT? THEN HOW IN KINGDOM HEARTS CAN YOU BE CALLING THE CASTLE!" Xemnas screams into the phone.
The phone is silent for a minute until Larxene says:
"I think we called long distan-"
Xemnas slams the phone back into its cradle and marches for the door.
"Where are you going, Superior?" Vexen asks in concern.
"… To get those two idiots from jail! And, no, you can't come, Xion!" Xemnas snarls in response as Xion grabs her stuff from the floor and starts to get up.
"Awwwww! I wanna come, Sup!" Xion wails, crossing her arms angrily as she starts pouting.
"… Fine. You can come." Xemnas allows as Xion squeals in joy and grabs Xemnas' hand.
"We're going on a triiiip! We're going on a triiiiip!" Xion sings as Xemnas leads her away towards the Gummi Ship Launch.
"Xemnas is not good with children…" Vexen says to Saix who was reading a paperback book.
"Uh huh… that's why we get away with a lot more than when we were bigger." Saix says with a faint smile as he remembers how Axel and he had unscrewed the chandelier in the Dining Room. So far, no one had noticed.
Several Hours Later
"Okay, if you have a King, I'll know you're cheating." Larxene informs her cellmate as she glares at her hand of poker cards.
The guy chuckles and winks at her as he puts down a Royal Flush.
"Looks like I'm cheatin', sweetie." He says with a smirk as he grabs the candy bar Larxene had bet and takes a slow and triumphant bite out of it.
"That's it, Steve! I won't let you get away with that again!" Larxene hisses as electricity starts sparking in her hand of small daggers but just then, the guards came in.
"Larxene? Marluxia?" The guard snaps angrily, looking annoying.
"Yes?" Both ask in unison but their questions are quickly answered when Xemnas and Xion appear behind the guard.
"Hi hi Larxy! Hi hi Marly! Did you bring me a present?" Xion asks in curiosity as she peers into the barred cells.
"Thank all that is holy! Xemnas!" Marluxia says in relief as the guard unlocks his door and he quickly scrambles out of the cell happily.
"See ya kid… that was fun." Steve says as Larxene walks out of the cage.
"Bye… If you're ever in the Dark City area, gimme a call, Steve! We'll have some fun." Larxene says as she marches dignifiedly to Xemnas as if she didn't really care.
Xemnas stares at them and at their ripped clothes.
"What on earth happened?" He asks as Marluxia glares up at him with a bruise on his face.
"… You should see the other guys!" Larxene chuckles, wiping one crimson Foudre knife on her torn shirt with a sadistic smile.
"Dude, you got one sick little sister." Steve comments to Xemnas from the jail cell, smiling at Larxene in total respect.
"You two are dead when you get home. You hear me? D-E-D." Xemnas whispers as he snaps a Corridor of Darkness open and shoves the two into it.
"Bye bye Mister! Say hi to Frank and Phil for me!" Xion calls out to Steve, waving wildly as Xemnas grabs her and pulls her into the Corridor, too.
"Xemnas, I think you spell "dead" with an A." Marluxia's voice is heard saying as the Corridor closes.
Steve watches this in amusement as he says:
"Now that's the kind of kid I want. One that kicks total ass!"