Nexis screamed, his mind in a state of complete and total rage. He screamed and screamed...huge bolts of electric energy flooded out of him. He would find out who was responsible...he would figure it out...and he would slaughter them. He was going to brutally massacre the one who killed his greatest friend...he would tear them to shreds. They would feel no mercy. None.

Nexis left the floor, teleporting to various floors rapidly, looking for any sign of the murderer. While he did this, he thought of how Laska had died. A huge gash in her heart, flooded with darkness, was the cause. He had noticed that the wound was not the work of a small weapon or a blade...it was much too clean, completely evened out. The cut was completely smooth. Lexaeus definitely couldn't have done it; his weapon was practically the size of a microwave! It was far too large to cut so cleanly. Zexion wouldn't kill her; he had no weapons... Naminé couldn't have... and Larxene didn't wield any real weapons! But Axel...his weapons could make that wound easily. It had to be him…but he had to be sure.

Nexis found Larxene in a room on the seventh floor. She was lounging around with Marluxia. Like they didn't have anything better to do…

Larxene was the first to notice him, and although she was a bit nervous, she greeted him. "Oh, hey there Nexis. What do you need?" She looked at him attentively. A moment later, he had grabbed both of them by their collars and slammed them up against the wall. "WHO DID IT?"

Larxene knew exactly what he meant, but before she could lie and live to flirt with him another day, Marluxia spoke. "Nexis? What on earth are you thinking?" he said harshly, not remembering that he wasn't the Superior-far from it, in fact-and had much less authority.

"I'm not going to say it again! WHO KILLED LASKA?" Nexis looked as if he had truly gone insane. "Killed Laska? Someone killed Laska?" Larxene pulled off a shocked look...granted, a very corny one, but just corny enough to work. "OF COURSE SOMEONE DID! I WOULD NOT LIE ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE THAT!"

"Okay, sorry..." Larxene replied with a small voice, feigning innocence. "Well, I just found this out now, so if you're looking for the culprit, don't look at me." Marluxia caught the full blast of Nexis's unrelenting anger. "DIDN'T DO IT, HUH? I SAY YOU'RE LYING TO ME! DON'T LIE TO ME!" Now it was official. Nexis had truly gone off the deep end. Larxene caught the spark of untamed fury in his right eye, and knew that she had messed up. He couldn't think; he couldn't calm himself; he couldn't do anything but get angrier and angrier. Marluxia looked terrified beyond explanation. There was silence for a few seconds, and then he dropped them on the floor.

"If I find out that any of you did it...You'll wish you had never met me…" he said through gritted teeth. The stone words fell through the silence. As Nexis turned to leave, Larxene figured she had one last chance. She may have messed up, but he didn't have to know it was her fault. "Wait! Nexis!" He didn't bother turning. "I know how miserable you must be right now...and I can feel your pain. I truly can. And I want to help you in any way possible to feel better." Larxene waited hopefully for a reply, and got one...one she liked very much. "Thanks. I'll consider it. But believe me..." a greater hint of anger crept into his voice. "If I find out that you killed Laska...or when I find out who did...I will sic the Heartless and Nobodies on them and wait for their heart to be devoured completely!" Now Larxene was shocked.

"Are you kidding me? You can't control the Heartless or Nobodies! You can't even try! If you do, you'll lose your heart!" Nexis turned around, revealing a severely depressed look completely opposite of the demented one he had had just seconds earlier. "No. I have nothing to lose. And besides..." Larxene thought she heard a slight sob.

"You can't lose a broken heart."

Zexion felt it again. A really strong scent had just faded. It couldn't have been the Superior, so who was it?

He had a feeling he already knew.

He could also sense another strong scent moving around the castle, colliding with the other ones. It was filled with rage and fury, and he sincerely hoped he would not meet it anytime soon.

Yeah. Like he would be that lucky.

Nexis appeared in front of him suddenly, a manic look in his one showing eye.

"Hi-"
"Where's Axel?"
"I don't kn-"

"WHERE IS HE?" He forced Zexion against a wall, causing him to whimper in fear.

"I told you, I don't know! Probably in the Superior's office, that's where I last saw him!" Nexis froze, then let Zexion go. Instead of running away, Zexion sensed Axel was coming towards them.

Yep.

"Please don't hurt Zexion; he can be very useful at times." Nexis glared at him silently, barely controlling his rage.

"You killed her, didn't you?"
"Killed who?" He clenched his fists.
"YOU KNOW VERY WELL WHO!"
"Honestly, I don't know. Would someone care to enlighten me?" Zexion shrugged, still a little frightened. Okay, a lot frightened.

"You killed Laska!" Axel cringed.
"No I didn't! Why would I do that?"

"Because you're you." Axel summoned his weapons, growing weary of this. Nexis likewise prepared to fight. Before any more blood could be spilled, however, Zexion intervened.

"Please don't fight! Neither of us killed her!" Nexis lowered his weapons.
"So if you didn't kill her, then who did?"

"I can guess that it was Larxene. No one else really has any reason to. Haven't you seen the way she flirts with you? It's so annoying." Nexis's earlier rage returned with a vengeance.

"She said she didn't do it…but how could she have? Her small weapons would have caused a different kind of wound." He felt awkward describing Laska's injury, but knew it was necessary.

"She can manipulate lightning into any shape she wants. A sword, a spear perhaps?" Nexis looked down.

"That must have been it. Now if you'll excuse me, I think I have something to do," he said vaguely before disappearing. Axel looked at Zexion, who shrugged and shook his head.

"I don't get it either."

"LARXENE!" Nexis burst into the room where she had previously been, but saw only Marluxia.

"She's not here."

"WELL I CAN SEE THAT!"

"She went off to fight Sora." Nexis growled a thank you and left immediately, arriving on the tenth floor in the hallway. Larxene was channeling a bolt of lightning at Sora, and he was having a hard time escaping. She focused so hard that she didn't notice Nexis, so he attacked her with a short bolt of electricity, throwing her off balance. Sora quickly used a potion to recover from the attack, and stepped up to Larxene to deliver the final blow. Nexis stopped him before he could do so.

"Don't bother, Sora. She's not worth it." He looked up, confused, but backed off anyway. Nexis glared at Larxene, who lay on the floor, clutching her side in pain. She opened her eyes and forgot her injury the second she caught sight of Nexis.

"Hi Nexis. I guess Sora got me when I wasn't expecting it."
"No, that was me."
"You're kidding. Why would you attack me?"
"YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHY!" She laughed nervously.
"Are you crazy? I have no idea what you're talking about…heh heh…"

"Stop it, Larxene. You don't want to make me angry." She stood and raised her weapons to fight.

"Fine. You want to fight me? Go ahead. I'll still love you even if you lose." She smiled flirtatiously, causing Nexis to roll his eyes. He caught sight of something on her wrist.

"What's that?"
"What's what?"
"On your wrist." She quickly held the hand behind her back, hiding the object.
"Nothing…" she said in a tiny, innocent voice. Nexis summoned her heart and, controlling it, forced her to show him what it was.
"Larxene…that's…that's low, even for you."

"What? It was pretty, and I thought it would look better on me."

"YOU STOLE HER BRACELET!" Larxene frowned.

"Fine. You want it?" She slid it off of her wrist and tossed it into the air towards the other side of the room.

"Go get it." He ran over to catch it. The blue glassy beads brushed against his fingertips just before it hit the floor, beads scattering everywhere.

It was destroyed.

Nexis could contain his rage no longer. He glowed a blinding yellow. Lightning bolts appeared everywhere, bouncing off the walls and ceiling. Larxene tried using her magic to control them, but they were unstoppable. Sora's only hope was to use Aeroga again and again. They kept coming after Larxene, and she wasn't able to stop them. 'I should be immune to this kind of thing! What's happening to me? AAAAAAAAAAHH!' She screamed but no sound came out.

For she was fading away.

"I can't believe you did that."
"I didn't try to. It's just a really bad thing when I get angry."
"But still…you killed her."
"She had it coming. She killed my best friend, after all."

"But you killed her…that's three deaths in one day. Presumably a new record."

"Will you stop making a big deal out of it? So I killed her, so what! I didn't try to, she deserved every bit of it, and it's over! Done! There's nothing I can do now." Nexis stormed off, leaving Zexion by himself. He briskly walked down the hallway.