Roxas walked into the grey room where Saïx was waiting for him as usual.
"Roxas. Larxene will be your partner today." The tall man informed as Roxas looked around for her, but only saw Xigbar sitting on the sofa, waving at him as Roxas laid his eyes on him. "She already left. Meet her on-site." He said as he then walked towards other members, handing out missions.
"Get practicing so you can make yourself useful, kid." Xigbar chuckled as Roxas walked past him. He then noticed Vexen looking out the window, mumbling something under his breath. As Roxas approached he noticed the sinister aura Vezen had surrounded himself within, chuckling something to himself as he didn't even notice number XIII.
"Hee hee... Interesting... So much to inspect... To dissect..." He said with a smile as Roxas stared at him for a few moments. As he realized that Vexen was too caught up in what he was saying to notice him, Roxas walked back over to Saïx who spared Vexen a glance before placing his attention back into Roxas.
"This time, we expect you to try out magic for a change, instead of relying solely on the Keyblade." He said as he gestured Roxas to hold out his hand, in it Saïx placed his own palm. Suddenly, Roxas feel a warm feeling in his chest, his eyes widening in surprise as Saïx then opened a corridor for him. Saying nothing else as Roxas walked through.
As he walked onto the sandpit of Twilight town, Roxas placed his hood over his head as Larxene approached him.
"Nice of you to show up." She said with a bitter tone. "
Roxas didn't respond, allowing her to let her steam out.
"Ugh, this is the worst. Whose idea was it to send me along on your stupid baby mission? Do I look like I run a nursery school? Let Demyx handle this stuff. It's not like he's good at anything else." She chastised as she then took notice of Roxas's silence, then glared at him. "What? WHAT? You got something to say?!" She demanded as Roxas shook his head, somehow angering her further.
"Pfft, you'd be nothing without that Keyblade." She muttered, then her eyes widened with realization as she turned back towards Roxas with a sadistic smile on her face. "...Oh ho! I just got an idea.
Roxas whimpered, as Larxene forced him to look at her, holding up his chin as he fearfully looked into her eyes, her scarily excited eyes.
"You can do today's mission WITHOUT your Keyblade." Larxene smiled as she then kicked him back, effectively knocking him into a newly appearing horde of plant shaped heartless. "Saïx told you to practice magic today, didn't he? Well, sink or swim."
Roxas looked around nervously as he was surrounded by heartless. He was suddenly hit in the back as the heartless blasted out an attack, knocking him to the ground. Roxas scrambled to his feet as well as he could he closed his eyes for a moment, feeling the same warmth in his chest from before as he shot a fire spell from his hand.
But missed as another heatless shot him.
Roxas groaned in pain as it took him a long time to defeat the heartless using only magic that wasn't very strong. However, he completed his mission as Larxene picked him by his hood, glaring at him as her previously sour mood was only slightly gone.
"How much of a loser are you that it takes you this long to use magic?" She chided as Roxas lowered his head. "Heck even Demyx knows how to use magic, are you brain dead or something?" She asked as more heartless showed up.
"Ooh ooh, here's a chance to redeem yourself, go on, wipe 'em out!" She ordered as she threw Roxas towards them again. He landed face first before them, quickly lifting himself to his hands as he saw the heartless charging up it's attack point-blank. "Oh, by the way, if you need to heal...do it yourself." Larxene informed as Roxas was blasted by a barrage of attacks.
Roxas ended up on his back, his coat burned, his face charred, but still alive as Larxene stood before him with her arms on her hips. "Sheesh, about time. Worst. Mission. Ever..." She said as Roxas pulled his hood over his eyes. "If you're our big-shot Keyblade wielder, then we're in deep doo-doo." She remarked.
A few moments passed between them as the savage nymph suddenly stomped her foot near his head, her dagger-like heel far too close to his head. " Ugh, can't you even hold up your end of a conversation?" She groaned in frustration as she grabbed his hair, forcing him face her glare head-on, still on his knees. "You'd better pull it together, or we'll never finish Kingdom Hearts. Unless, of course, we put somebody else on Keyblade duty..." She muttered the last few words as she released her grip. Roxas fell back on the ground face first, laying there as she then opened a corridor.
"Ugh, find your own way back, Key-bearer." She remarked apathetically as Roxas just laid on the ground, realizing that it was Larxene's job to teach him how to use corridors.
They taught me that my Keyblade releases hearts. But why do I have it? How did I learn to use it? The more I learned, the less I seemed to know...
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Saïx walked through the corridor of Darkness as he noticed a few birds sitting on their Keyblade wielder. He gave no indication of any emotion as picked him up the boy, the birds flying away at his approach. Carrying Roxas in his arms, he used a healing spell causing most of Roxas's injuries to be healed as the young boy rested his head on the elder man's arm. He reminded himself to lecture Larxene as he walked out of the corridor, placing Roxas on his bed, turning off the lights as he went back to work.
Notes:
- Roxas takes after Kairi, in more ways than one.
-Larxene is mean and doesn't like kids, that is most of her character.