Chapter Twenty-Three: Look! Penguins!

So far, the score is….-drumroll- Axel-5 Demyx-1. So, if you want Demy to win, vote, but if you want Axel to win, vote too! Unless he has like a bajilliondy votes and Demy can't win…Awweh, I sound a little mean. Anyways, get a burrito and read, sparky, read! Warning for the F word again.

I looked at Demyx with a slight glare, slash face that signed I was about to burst out laughing.

"Maybe." I giggled. "I mean, the author's got a poll going to decide if I should say yes to you or to the strange man with red hair. I can't just make a decision on my own!"

He sighed, the looked at me and smiled. "That's okay." He grinned. "I didn't like that song all the much anyways, I would rather have played We Are All on Drugs. That's a good song!" He grabbed at my cheeks and pulled. "You know, I'm either just crazy for what I did, or you're to me, like Roxas is to Axel."

"Who're they?" I asked. "Do I know they?" Demyx shrugged.

"You might, I don't know. I can't get into your head." He said. "But hey, what do I know?"

"ANNA!" I began searching around once I heard someone call my name. "Anna where are you!"

I began frantically trying to get up from my little nook in the ditch to get up and freak out over what was happening.

"Who's calling me!" I asked, shouting frantically at Demyx. "Do I know them? Why can't I think?"

"There you are!" I looked up over the edge of the ditch and a strange man with red hair was looking down at me. He looked at Demyx and began swearing. "What the hell do you think you're doing with him?"

"Who the hell are you?" I snapped at him. "Stop following me!"

"It's me, Axel!" he shouted at me, jumping down in the ditch. "Quit pulling a Roxas! Ansem's not screwing with you!"

"But Xemnas is." Demyx interrupted.

"And you didn't stop him?" the man named Axel yelled.

"I did my best, okay!" he snapped back.

"I thought we had a deal, Demyx!" the man named Axel snapped back. "You'd be allowed to help me protect her by watching her memories for my heart back. I know you wanted too! And look what you've done! She doesn't remember me now!"

"Well then maybe you should have watched her memories instead!" Demyx roared at him. "Maybe that way you could have your little princess and get on with your life!"

"I'm right here." I interrupted. "You can stop fighting over me now."

The red haired man sighed. "Demyx come on, you're staying with us." I squeaked.

"Are you kidnapping me!" I shouted. The man sighed again.

"I'm taking you two back to Sora and the others." He replied, grabbing me by the wrist and dragging me away, Demyx close behind.

I walked up to Sora and started freaking out. "Who is he?" I shouted. "Why's he here, what's he doing?"

"W-we'll tell you later." Sora said. "Kairi, keep going forward with Anna, and hurry up!" Kairi grabbed me by the wrist and began running.

"What's going on, why can't I think?" I asked her as she continued running.

"The Organization has screwed up your memories!" she shouted, as she stopped. "And you can't even remember your best friends! You're not even fighting!"

"What are you talking about?" I asked, grabbing my head. "You guys are my friends!"

"Beth and Lizzy!" she snapped. "Don't you remember? You were so happy to find out that they were okay." I bit my lip and shook my head a bit.

I tried thinking about any other people I had known. I shook my head. "I can't think of anyone." I said, sadly. I paused for a minute. "Let's just keep going!"

We began running forward again as I was trying to figure out who the people were that Kairi mentioned. I know we had been running for hours, but it hadn't felt like we had gotten anywhere. Well, we thought we hadn't gotten anywhere until we looked up at that giant castle.

"Go." Kairi said. "It's your memories." I stood there next to her.

"You're not coming?" I asked.

"No! God no!" she shouted. "Namine won't let me go in there!"

I sighed. "Who's that?" I asked. Kairi shook her head.

"Just go in." she said. "I'll be out here. I'll tell the others to go in when they get here." I groaned and opened the door and stepped in.

The halls were eerily white. It was painful. I was too noticeable, wearing that black coat and shivering in place.

"Hellooo?" I called out. "Okay, no one's here, I'll be going the—"

"About time you joined us, Annax." I was lifted up and began flailing about.

"Who're you?" I shouted. "Are you one of Demyx's friends! Why do people keep picking me up!" The person let me down and I saw that it was a man with somewhat graying black hair tied into a ponytail. He was wearing a coat like mine and had an eye patch over his left eye. I looked at him for a moment, putting a finger to my mouth in though. "Wait a minute…I think I know…Xigbar!"

"Annax, are you still with us? Come on, you remember, right?" he said.

I backed up a bit. "No…But…" I felt the chakrams flashed into my hands in a burst of fire.

"Annax, you're not really going to turn against us too?" I looked down at the floor and clenched the chakrams tightly.

"My name is Anna." I snapped, jerking my head up and flinging it at Xigbar, adding something seemed to fit in well as I walked up to him as he had been knocked to the ground. I looked at him and said, "Got it memorized?"

"Not bad kid." He said with a surfer like accent, as he got up, and two things that looked guns, but were equipped with knives appeared in his hands.

"NYA!" I squeaked. "Don't kill me!" I suddenly resorted back from my sudden menacing persona to my scared, squeaky fangirl persona. I jumped back, and saw a staircase behind him. I suddenly had the best idea. "Hey look! Penguins!" I shouted.

"Dude, where!" he asked excitedly as he began searching around. I ran past him laughing, only to hear him cursing.

I liked that the staircase was darker than the hallways, but then I got up to the next level and realized that it was just as bright again.

"I'm surprised you made it this far…you've been too much of a trouble to us, so I came to deal with you." Another person said as soon as I got up the stairs.

Xaldin appeared, and I groaned. "There's no way I could forget you." I moaned. "You were a bitch to fight in that game!" I kind of scooted against the wall and began to maneuver around him. "I'll be going n—"

He grabbed me by the hood and lifted me up. "Not this time. You either fight me or you come with me."

"I'd rather come with you. I don't like the wind when it's trying to hurt me." I squeaked. "Where to?"

A portal opened up and sucked both of us in. We ended up in an equally as white room with a white couch, white table, white chairs, and everything was WHITE. I hate the color white, I like off-white, but not white.

"I have brought her, our superior." Xaldin announced, bowing and fading away.

At the back of the room was Xemnas. He was standing with his back turned to me.

"You've become a disgrace to the Organization." He said to me. "You've been quite a project. Yet, if you keep interfering we'll have to take desperate measures."

"You already have!" I snapped. "I can't think! My brain is freaking melting!" Xemnas turned to me, tossing a little pouch in his hands that glowed a light green color.

"Do you know what this is?" he asked me, as he continued to toss the bag in his hand. I clutched the chakrams in my hands. "This happens to be quite valuable to you, yet if you don't have an idea as to what this is, it must not be very important. I might as well just dispose of this then." He grabbed a little string on the pouch.

"Stop!" I shouted. Xemnas looked at me with interest.

"Would you like to tell me what this is then?" he asked, dropping the string. I sulked and looked to the ground again, in a mix of pissyness and angst.

"Those're my memories!" I shouted, flinging a chakram at him. "And I want them back!" Xemnas quickly conjured the lightsaber things and flung the chakram into the wall.

"I'm afraid I can't too that." He said, stepping on to the table, pointing the lightsabers at me. "If I gave these back to you, we would have absolutely no reason for you to continue returning to us."

I backed into the wall, "You mother fu—" a portal opened behind me and I got pulled in.

"I told you not to fuck with me!" the man with the red hair stuck his head out and yelled that at Xemnas and closed the portal as he brought his head back in.

Go guy I don't know!