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: I got more reviews and even a couple of favs... and chocolate! Huzzah! -does a little dance with chibi Zexion- Review response at end of chapter.
Review if you like, don't if you don't. Enjoy.
- the critical blow
Bairn
By: the critical blow
Chapter 3: Say wha...?
"Larxene. Demyx. Come on." He said. Demyx nodded and climbed off the couch and toddled over to him before clutching Vexen's hand in his own. Vexen winced at the contact, he wasn't used to it in the least, and pulled his hand away. Demyx made a little sound and his eyes held a look of sadness for a minute before he looked at the floor. He didn't cry or reach for his hand again. Larxene walked over waiting patiently.
"Come on Marluxia." Xigbar said but the brown haired child didn't budge. Xigbar raised a brow and huffed impatiently. Marluxia gave him the same look he'd given Axel earlier when he'd tried to pry him off his leg. He shook his head.
"Get over here." He ordered.
"Nu-uh. Wanna go with Ni-san." Marluxia said and sat stubornly.
"Well, Ni-san is taking Roxas. So get over here." Xigbar sighed. Roxas let out a squeak when he heard this and started shaking his head rapidly from side to side.
"Dun wanna. Dun wanna. Dun wanna. Dun wanna." He chanted over and over again. Marluxia grinned at that and pat the younger boy on the head.
"Wanna trade?" He asked. Roxas nodded his head up and down.
"Yep yep! Twade!" The small boy said smiling brightly. Axel opened his mouth to protest but before he could Xigbar nodded.
"Alright."
"What!"
"Just so long as they move their sorry little a-"
"Xigbar!" Luxord snapped stopping the man from finishing his sentence.
"What? It's not like they've never heard it before." Xigbar gave him a confused look. Luxord had never had a problem with his cursing before. And besides, ass wasn't really a curse word. Or atleast it wasn't to Xigbar.
"Never mind... Zexion. Come on. Let's go." Luxord sighed. He knew if he continued this conversation the young ones would be hearing much worse from the patch eyed gunslinger. Far worse... Zexion stared at Luxord wih a raised brow, debating whether it would be wise to go with him or not. But casting a glance at the other grown ups in the room he figured he'd be safest with him. The others were a bit too loopy for his tastes.
When Zexion walked over to Luxord Roxas climbed off the sofa, with a little bit of difficulty, and toddled over to Xigbar. Marluxia walked over to Axel and leaned against his leg. If Axel didn't know any better he could have sworn the boy was purring... or at least that's what he would have assumed with the look of bliss on his face. Axel could just feel his eye twitch.
"Ni-san!" Marluxia chirrped pleasntly.
"I thought I was taking Roxas. Not Xigbar." Axel growled. He wasn't going to be stuck with Marluxia so easily.
"Change of plans I guess. As you can see-" Xigbar started.
"Dun wanna!" Roxas interjected as he gripped the tall man's leg.
"-Roxas doesn't want to go with you. Smart boy. And besides... the little brat seems to like ya." Xigbar finished and pointed to Marluxia. Axel looked to Vexen for aid but he found none there.
"Not my problem." The scientist grumbled and led his two children out the door and into the hallway. So Axel looked to Luxord but he was already gone. Xigbar picked Roxas up, making the child squeak, smiled at the red head plesantly and waved.
"Good luck... Ni-san!" Xigbar laughed and vanished in a flash of dark light. Axel groaned and glanced at the the boy at his side.
"Come on..." He sighed and slinked out the door, heading into the hall Vexen had gone into. Marluxia beamed and skipped after him.
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Vexen was not about to let two children into his labratory as he didn't want to loose any of his experiments or put the children, or himself , in danger. Demyx had always had a knack for finding the most lethal and combustible things in his lab when he was an adult. Honestly, he was better at it than Axel. Now that he was a child he'd probably be even more attracted to them. So he settled on taking them to the library and have them sit in a secluded section with not so many vases and breakable things. That way they could pretend to read books or whatever they wanted to do without doing too much harm.
"Here we are. You two stay in that section over there. You can look at the books but don't touch anything else, okay?" Vexen waited for them to respond before actually letting them inside.
"Kay." Demyx nodded slowly.
"Don't touch anything 'cept for the book. Right!" Larxene said once again giving the elder man the thumbs up sign. Vexen watched them go and smiled to himself.
'This might go smoother than I thought...'
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The second Luxord and Zexion entered his room Zexion went into a corner and sat on a chair. The boy didn't look too pleased with the situation but he voiced no complaints. Luxord wasn't quite sure what to do with him. He knew Zexion couldn't play cards. He'd tried all the time to get him to play a game with him and the lilac haird man had always declined. That was until Demyx gave Zexion one too many margaritas in the Casino Night Zone and they'd finally coaxed him into playing.
Let's just say Zexion was so bad at cards he made Xigbar look good. That was the most munny Luxord had ever made off of anyone in a single night. But maybe he'd be more willing to play now.
"So... what do you want to do?" Luxord asked. Zexion shrugged his little shoulder before trying to blush his bangs, which still covered his eye, out of his face but had no luck.
"I dunno..." He answered as his gaze darted around the room. Odd how the kid never made eye contact with anyone...
"Wanna play a card game?" Luxord asked.
"Card game?" This peaked the boy's attention.
"Yeah. Poker."
"How do you play?" Zexion asked and moved closer to the gambler. Luxord grinned and motioned for him to come closer. The two sat on the bed and Luxord began to explain the rules of the game.
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"Ooooooo..." Roxas stared around the library with wide eyes. He'd never seen so many books before in his little life. He was tempted to run around this new space but Xigbar was still holding him. Xigbar had thought it best to bring him here, there wasn't really anywhere else he could take him. Vexen's lab was off limits, the commons room had just been fixed, and Xigbar's room wasn't exactly child friendly. And he wasn't exactly ready to take the kid outside as he could run away or be seen by the Superior and then they'd really be in trouble...
Hopefully the Superior would never find out about this little incident as they'd of fixed it by then. He really cursed his instinctive nature. Maybe he should take those anger management classes Zexion kept reccomending he take. Wait, hell no. They shouldn't have provoked him. Damn brats. He felt squirming in his arms and noticed Roxas trying to wiggle out of his grasp.
"What?" Xigbar asked.
"Down." Roxas said.
"Wha? Why do you want to get down?" The man asked.
"Down." Roxas said again.
"Hold up a minute." Xigbar said and started walking further into the library. He was worried if he set the kid down he'd take off running and destroy everything in his path. He may be small but he could wield two keyblades when he was older. That had to count for something.
"No. Down now." Roxas said squirming even more.
"No."
"Down."
"No!"
"Down!"
"No! Hold up!"
"DOWN!"
"NO!"
"Yesh, don't you know your in a library? Keep it down." A voice chuckled from behind. Xigbar rolled his eyes, so it seemed Axel had the same idea. Marluxia trailed behind him staring at the books in awe. Xigbar put the squirming child on the floor and watched as he ran off in a random direction but figured that if the kid got into trouble he'd deal with it later. Marluxia watched as Roxas ran off and walked after him before he paused, turned around and walked back over to Axel.
"I'll be back. Don't leave without me, kay?" He said. Axel rolled his eyes.
"Wouldn't even dream of it." He grumbled. Marluxia failed to pick up on the sarcasm dripping from the man's voice and smiled before hugging his leg and running after Roxas. As soon as the boy was gone, Axel turned on his heel and walked out the door. Xigbar shook his head. So irresponsible. Not his problem though! He heard noise further along in the library and went to investigate it. Row after row, isle after isle he found nothing.
Xigbar didn't know why they needed such a huge library. It was such a waste of space. And then he found the source of the noise. It seemed Marluxia and Roas had found Larxene and Demyx. Demyx was half asleep and sitting in a chair while Larxene buised herself with reading picture book and keeping an eye on the others. Probably to make sure they followed Vexen's orders or something. Roxas was running around in circles giggling while Marluia watched. It looked like they had everything under control and he was sure if anyone one misbehaved Larxene would rip them a new one.
Xigbar decided to find Vexen and see if he'd come up with any ideas. He found him in the lowest portion of the library, it took up three floors, and in the... child care section? It wasn't so much seeing the scientist there is was just that...
Why did they have a child care section? When did they get it? Who the hell would request such a thing! Oh well, he supposed it was conveinent at the time.
"Hey Vexen. Any ideas?" He asked. Vexen shook his head.
"No. None yet. Figured out what spell you used?"
"Nope."
"Damn."
"Yeah."
Vexen opened his mouth to stay something when an ear splitting wail of terror filled the air. The two looked at each other and ran to investigate.
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A/N: Based the library sort of off Hollow Bastion, except everything is white like in Castle Oblivion. And the Casino Night Zone is a stage from one of the Sonic Games. I don't own that either.Kind of didn't know what to do for Zexion and Luxord... Meh. I'm gonna leave it there for now... I've already got half of chapter 4 written. Took me forever to upload cause the sitewouldn't take it...
Thanks to everyone who reviewed! -passes out cookies- You guys make my world go round!
Review Response (of doom!)
Libe-chan: Thanks so much for the two reviews. And the chocolate! -munches on it- Glad you find this funny.
Claws: Larxene was one of my favorite characters but a lot of people I knwo don't like her. She deserves love too. And besides girls tend to kick boys butts when their younger (physically and height wise) XD Thanks for reviewing.
The fangirl whos obsessed with Demyx and the Spellbinder keyblade: Actually Demyx isn't plotting anything bad... yet anyway. He'll get a teeny bit more into character next chapter though.
Mystic Firorah: Indeed they do... Indeed they do... Glad you find this funny!
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