Disclaimer: I don't own the XIII order... or most of the things that will be mentioned in this fic. -cries- I make no money off this...
Summary: Poor Vexen... All he wanted was a nap! One of Xigbar's time spells goes horribly wrong leaving him and the other order members with some pint sized problems... Pre-CoM
Warnings: OOCness, children (oh horror of horrors!), spelling and grammar errors, hints of shounen-ai, some Spoilers for XII Order members...
A/N: Well... I got a couple of reviews. Some people like this. Yay! Chibi Zexion action is something I hope to have a lot of in this fic as well as much chibi chaos...
Review if you like, don't if you don't. Enjoy.
- the critical blow
Bairn
By: the critical blow
Chapter 2: What do we do now?
This couldn't be happening. There was no possinle way that this situation could actually be happening. There was no way in hell that Xigbar could have possibly turned several of their comrades into children. But the more Vexen looked at the scene around him the more plausible it seemed. There were 5 children where 5 Order memebers had once been and they were all dressed in their outfits. They were a bit baggy on their forms but nothing too bad. If he guess correctly the child clinging to Axel was Marluxia, the boy crying was Zexion, the girl poking Zexion was Larxene, the boy watching Larxene poke Zexion was Roxas and the boy in front of him was... Demyx. Demyx stared up at him with wide eyes blue eyes that made the older man feel uneasy. Vexen clenched and unclenched his fists as the crying was starting to get on his nerves.
Axel glanced at the boy clutching his leg in a death grip and raised a brow in confusion.
"What the hell?" He asked.
The child version of Marluxia continued to cling on him and pointed to Vexen, who had just pulled Zexion and Larxene away from each other in an attempt to make the noise stop. It worked some what as Zexion's wails had faded into hiccups.
"He tried to kill me, Ni-san!" He said shakily. Surprisingly, he wasn't as loud as Vexen had expected him to be. The Marluxia he knew could be heard down the hall when talked normally and when he really got riled he could be heard downstairs. Axel regarded Vexen with an aggitated stare and Vexen sighed.
"I thought he was a heartless." The elder man grumbled. Axel shrugged, honestly not caring, and tried to pry Marluxia from his leg. It didn't work.
"Off." The red head commanded and Marluxia stared at him as if he were crazy. Axel supressed a growl and settled for glaring at him.
"Now." Axel commanded. Marluxia gave him that same 'You's a crazy grownup' stare and shook his head.
"Nu-uh." Marluxia said. Axel realized that there was no way in hell this kid was going to let go of him of his own free will and there was no way he was going to be tugged off either. He sighed in defeat and Marluxia relaxed a little thinking Axel was just going to let him cling to him. Boy was he ever wrong...
"Get off of me!" Axel yelled and began shaking his leg in the air in an attempt to hurl the small boy across the room. Marluxia yelped fearfully but didn't let go. Instead he clung even tighter until he was clinging so hard Axel couldn't feel his blood circulating anymore. This went on for a few moments, the only one tiring being Axel, and finally he stopped and panted heavily. How the hell could such a small child have such a powerful grip! The minute he stopped the death grip loosened a little bit but just enough so Axel could feel his circulation again. Axel rubbed his temple in aggitation.
"A little help here?" He asked.
Luxord went to his aid and picked the boy up from behind, startling him a little and causing Marluxia to latch onto the closest thing to him at the moment... Axel's hair.
"Sombody help!" Marluxia wailed.
"OwowowowowowowowowOW! Let go of my hair!" Axel yowled as Marluxia tugged at his red locks painfully. Xigbar and Vexen watched on in a mix of amusement and pity as Luxord tried to figure out how to get Marluxia to let go of Axel without actually having to let go of the child himself. It was actually Larxene who came up with a solution to the problem who threw a can of green beans at the three from the bag of groceries Marluxia had brought in earlier.
She had suprisingly good aim for a 5 year old as she hit Luxord square in the head casuing him to release his grip on Marluxia and fall to the floor knocked senseless. Marluxia then let go off Axel's hair and clung to his waist when he realized he'd started failing. Vexen stared at Larxene with wide eyes slightly disturbed by her actions but made no attempt to say anything. She stared back at him and smiled toothily before giving him the thumbs up.
"Problem solved!" She said brightly as she came to stand beside him. Xigbar laughed off to the side while Vexen made a mental note to never piss Larxene off when she was armed with a can of vergtables. Staring at Luxord's prone form and Marluxia still clinging to a defeated Axel he couldn't say the problem had really been solved but for now it would do...
"Indeed..." He said.
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It took the combined efforts of the three concious Order members to round the children up who were now sitting on the long couch in the commons room and starighten up the room.
It took 15 minutes to convince Marluxia that no one was going to kill him and that just because he let go of Axel that he wouldn't vanish into thin air and leave him all alone. With that weight off his chest, litteraly, Axel was able to begin the kiddy round up. Axel had tried to get Roxas to sit down first seeing as Roxas was his best friend.
But after seeing how Axel had been with Marluxia the boy kicked him in the shin and promptly ran away from him screaming something incoherent. Demyx was the best behaved of all of them, all it took Vexen to get him to sit down quietly was a simple pointing gesture. Zexion was a bit more of a handful as he had started chasing Axel around yelling at him to leave Roxas alone and had ended up kicking him. When Axel had rounded on him both Roxas and Zexion were running around the room screaming.
Larxene once again solved the prombem by threatening the two boys with a can of sliced peaches and another poke fest.
"Sit down." Larxene growled. Roxas hid behind Zexion fearfully hoping to use him as a human shield. Zexion glared at her.
"Make me." He spat. Larxene tossed the can from hand to hand and Roxas squeaked.
"Mebe... we shud listen to her Zexon..." He said.
"She won't do it." Zexion said crossing his arms and glaring at the blonde girl almost as if daring her to throw the can. And she did. It flew a mere centimeter from his face and crashed into the wall with a dull thud. The lilac haired boy paled considerably.
"Y-You missed." He stuttered trying to regain his composure.
"Or did I?" Larxene asked.
"Yeah. You didn't hit me or Roxas. Right Roxas?" Zexion asked.
"Wight!" Roxas said sticking his tounge out at Larxene. Larxene grinned and pointed at the wall. The two stared at noticed a splatter... where a spider had once been. Roxas' eyes went wide and he ran to the couch sitting down between Marluxia and Demyx. Zexion took a step back but didn't move more than that.
"Sit down." Larxene said again.
"N-no."
"Sit down... or I'll poke you." She said.
"You wouldn't d-" Zexion was cut off as Larxene let out a war cry pointing her finger at him and charged. Zexion went completly pale and ran to the couch leaping on to it and diving behind Marluxia. Marluxia rolled his eyes and Roxas pat Zexion on the back with his chubby little hand. Demyx merely yawned loudly and leaned back. Larxene smirked satisfied with her work, picked up the can of peaches and walked back over to Vexen.
"All accounted for." She reported before handing him the can and walking back over to sit on the couch herself sitting next to Demyx.
"Um... Right." Vexen said shocked by her once again. Why couldn't she be this useful as an adult? Probably not the right incentive he supposed... He was just glad to have children all in one area and not doing anything... child like. Luxord finally mamanged to revive himself and came to join the other adults. They stood off to a corner out of ear shot of their shrunken comrades.
"My head is killing me... again. What happened?" He asked obviously not remembering how he passed out. Xigbar smirked more than happy to answer him.
"You got taken out by a little girl with a can." Xigbar sniggered. Luxord raised a brow but figured if he asked anymore the joke would be on him. Vexen rolled his eyes but then again... there was no better explanation for it. He rubbed his temples and regarded the man with the eye patch.
"How did this happen? What did you do to the Xigbar?" Vexen asked.
"I have no idea... Demyx and Zexion pissed me off and I just sort of... lost it." He answered truthfully.
"I can see that, but what spell did you use on them?" Vexen asked.
"I dunno." Xigbar said.
"How can you not know!" Vexen asked.
"As I said. They pissed me off and I lost it. You know the way I get when I loose it." Xigbar growled. Then he looked at Axel and raised a brow.
"Wait... Why aren't you a kid? Didn't you get hit too?" He asked.
"Do I look stupid? The second I saw you powering up I teleported behind you. Did you not here my aww shit earlier?" Axel grinned smugly.
"How do we fix them?" Luxord asked. Xigbar shrugged and all eyes fell on Vexen. He scowled. Why was it always his job to fix their problems?
"Don't look at me. I can't undo a spell if I don't even know what it is! Maybe it'll just wear off... If Xigbar can figure out what he did to them then I can find a way to reverse it." He sighed. Axel sighed softly running a hand through his hair.
"What do we do with them in the mean time?" He asked.
"Take care of them." Vexen said. Well that was obvious.
"Yeah, but who takes care of them?" Axel asked again.
"Don't look at me. I'm not taking care of a bunch of kids." Luxord said.
"Me neither. I have to try and... figure out what I did." Xigbar said quickly. Axel shook his head, there was no way he was gonna be stuck babysitting.
"We should all take part in taking care of them." Vexen said sensing a headache coming on.
"You mean like taking shifts?" Luxord asked.
"No... I wouldn't advise that. If they're all together then they can... plot. We should each take one of the children." Vexen suggested. Axel nodded.
"Sounds good. I'll take Roxas." He said.
"I'll take Zexion." Luxord said.
"I'll get Marluxia..." Xigbar sighed not wanting to have to deal with any of the others. Of all the members turned children Marluxia was the only one he could really tolerate. Vexen stared at the remaining child only to realize... there were two. Logical as there were 5 children and 4 adults.
He looked to the others but already they were shaking their heads. He should really stick one of them with Xigbar as this was his fault but that would only result in more problems furhter down the line. Xigbar wasn't really 'parent material'. Well none of them were but of all of them he would probably be the worst.
"Fine. I'll look after the other two..." Vexen sighed softly.
"So... We take them now?" Xigbar asked. Vexen nodded and went to gather his two charges.
It looked like he wasn't going to get that nap for quite a while...
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A/N: I think Larxene is cool. I actually felt bad when I killed her in CoM. Anyway I don't want Lexeaus to come out till later... as I have a little scenario set up between Demyx, Roxas and Zexion later on. Same with Xaldin. I'm not good with baby talk... I'll try to make it better next chapter.The whole Marluxiagrabbing Axel's hair was based offthe first episode of Inuyasha...I'll try to get ch. 3 finished soon.