Me: Whee:runs around in circles:
Sera: How much sugar did you eat today?
Me: Let's see…there was the Laffy Taffys (banana flavored), the coke, the tea biscuits, the iced tea, the Mike and Ikes, two ice pops, the homemade rice crispie treats, and the rocky road ice cream.
Sera: …You need to lay off the sugar for a while.
Me: Why? Because I'll talk too much? I'll be trying to find ways to burn off my extra energy? I won't be able to type as fast as I want to because my fingers are shaking?
Sera: I thought you said you couldn't get hyper.
Me: I never said I couldn't have a sugar-high.
Gale: Is everything supposed to be blurry?
Sera: I'm afraid to ask…
Demyx: What? I only gave her some cookies…
Sera:slaps forehead: Ok, since Reader is currently being weird again…Readergirl-290 doesn't own any character except for me in this fic. She also owns herself and the characters that portray her younger siblings. Can someone hand me a tranquilizer? Reader and Gale really need to calm down.
Me: And by the way, the only thing left of Axel's old cloak was some of the shoulders and the hood. He was in a white t-shirt and black pants with his boots on when he was looking for Liz. Just so you know. :runs to find more sugar:
The next morning, Sera woke up in a strange room that she didn't remember being in before. Everything in it was white. The shirt she was wearing was a couple of sizes too big, but it was also white. The room seemed very big to her. She walked over to the dresser, but she was too small to see on top of it. The little girl pushed the only chair in the room to the dresser and climbed on top. In the mirror on top of the dresser, she saw herself with large light blue eyes and blondish-brown hair that went to her mid back. The brunette found her locket on the dresser and put it on around her neck. As she was exploring the room, she discovered a very large trenchcoat with a large off-white shirt and a large pair of jeans over a pair of brown boots. She also found a messenger bag with chapter books inside it. A knock at the door made her pause in exploring this new room. She went to the door and stood on tiptoe to turn the knob.
Demyx's eyes widened as a small girl dressed only in a white t-shirt that was too big for her opened the door. The little girl seemed familiar. "What's your name, kid?" He asked in his adult-talking-to-little-kid voice.
The brunette took a breath and said quietly, "I'm Serafina. My mommy says it's a nice name. Some people call me Sera, though."
Surprised, Demyx asked automatically, "Where is your mom, then?"
At this question, Sera looked to the floor sadly. "I dunno. I was sleeping in my bedroom, and then I woke up here."
Larxene will know what to do… The musician thought, then said aloud, "I have a friend who may help us. She's right down the hall."
"Ok!" Sera beamed and took the teenager's hand. Demyx then led her to the Savage Nymph's bedroom door. He knocked. The blonde Nobody opened the door.
"What do you want?" She asked sharply. Sera looked a little scared at the strange lady with antennae for bangs. Larxene noticed the little girl then and figured out what had happened in a few seconds. She then went to a nearby closet and picked out the smallest sized cloak, pants, and boots for Sera and dragged the child into her room, slamming the door afterwards. A minute or two later, Sera emerged from the older woman's room in clothes that were still too big, but not by much. "We're going to Xemnas." Larxene ordered Demyx.
"Who's Xemnas?" The curious child asked. No one answered, but both Larxene and Demyx created a portal of darkness. Sera clung to the teenager, since he was nicer than the lady was. A few seconds later, they were in the Xemnas' office. The Superior looked surprised when he saw the little girl in Organization clothing.
"Who is this child?" He asked.
"I'm Serafina, but some people call me Sera. Where am I?"
After blinking, the older man answered, "In a different place than your home, I'm afraid. How old are you, Sera?"
"Eight-and-a-half, Mr. Xemnas." She said in a voice as serious as it could be for her age. Both Larxene and Demyx snickered a little at Sera's title for their leader. Even Xemnas smiled a little.
"It's just Xemnas, child."
"Oh…Do you know where my mommy and daddy are?" Sera asked suddenly. At the grey-haired man's confused silence, she took out her locket and opened it. She stood on tiptoe and put it on the desk for Xemnas to see. "The grown-ups are my mommy and daddy. The baby is me when I was a baby. Do you know where they are?" The picture inside was of a couple holding a toddler in between them. The man had blue eyes and blonde hair with no beard and the woman had brown eyes and brown hair. The toddler had a goofy grin on her face that went well with the couple's smiles.
Xemnas cleared his throat and returned the locket to the little girl. "I'm afraid I don't know where your parents are right now, Sera." At Sera's saddened face, he quickly added, "But we'll see. Larxene, Demyx, make sure that she doesn't get into harm's way while I have a 'chat' with Vexen." The 8-year-old was then pushed out of the door while the Superior went into one of his own portals of his own to Vexen's underground lab.
The two 'grown-ups' by Sera's term, led her to the lounge where Axel and Roxas were currently watching an action film. After a bit of debating, Demyx went to the kitchen to find some food for the hungry little girl while Larxene stayed behind to watch over Sera. The little elementalist (a person who can control the elements) in question was using some wind to blow Axel and Roxas's spiky hair out of alignment. The female Nobody was enjoying herself reading 'Marquis de Sade' from a chair away from numbers 8 and 13 of the Organization while Sera was having fun. "Would you stop messing with my hair?" Axel shouted.
Sera immediately stopped and said in a quiet voice, "Sorry."
Both Axel and Roxas turned around at the little girl's voice. She was pouting and giving them puppy dog eyes. Everyone knows that you have to be insane or someone very used to kids to resist a little girl's puppy dog eyes. "Aw, it's ok. You were just having fun with—wait a minute." Axel looked harder at Sera. "SERA? What're you doing as a little kid?"
"Huh?"
"What happened? Did Vexen force-feed you a potion or something?" Roxas asked, curious.
"What are you talking about? I don't know you." Sera said, getting more and more upset in this strange new environment without her mom or her dad. Had she turned around, she would have seen Larxene look up from her book and not help with the situation.
"Don't know me? Hell, I brought you here! And you say you don't know me? Come on, Sera!"
"I don't! I don't!" Tears were filling her eyes. "I want my mom!" She shouted and started to cry. Lightning flashed and both Axel and Roxas jumped off of the couch before the bolt hit the television. Demyx had, by then, entered the room and dropped the box of cereal that he had gotten for Sera. Suddenly, a man with blonde hair, blue eyes and the Organization cloak came into the room and held the little girl.
"There, there, Sera. Don't cry." He said softly, though with little emotion.
Sera's tears lessened, as well as the lightning when she recognized the man holding her. "Daddy?" Without waiting for an answer, she hugged him. "Daddy!" The man seemed awkward and looked at the others for some help, shifting his face a little to show that he was really Zexion.
"Uh, Vexen is in his lab getting a lecture from Xemnas right now. I'm sure that he'll need to see her to make a cure." Demyx said nervously. Zexion nodded and carried the little girl to the staircase that led to the lab.
"Where are we going, daddy?" Sera asked curiously.
"You'll see, Sera." Zexion said in his 'daddy' voice. Had Sera been her normal self, she would have noticed the emotionless face of her so called 'daddy' as he said that. Of course, the little girl only accepted this with a bright smile and hugged him again while he carried her.
Me: I've been thinking of making a chibi Sera for days now… Sera: …It's me from before my parents died right?Me: Yeah…Vexen's going to explain what the potion should have done in the next chapter…after he gets in trouble.
Vexen: Why do I have to be in trouble?Me: Because you were one of the most annoying bosses in CoM, and because I just don't like you very much.
Vexen: Gee, thanks…Me: I hope you liked it!
