Authors Note – I know things are a bit fast paced in this chapter, but hey, they had a very busy day. Anyway, hope you like the chapter. Read and Review.
Disclaimer – I don't own Kingdom Hearts.
Axel sighed heavily as he exited the dark portal into the woods outside of the mansion. "Well that was useless." He said loudly, looking up at the sky, his hands behind his head.
Exsor nodded slowly. "But you can't really hold to what he said. Roxas might be in him, but none of Roxas's memories are there. And Sora wouldn't know anything about Nobodies to save his life."
"Yeah, I guess your right…" Axel leaned his back against a tree, thinking. "Hey, Xemnas told us to give him reports on what Roxas was doing… and Roxas said a friend of his… Kairi I think… was taken… do you think Xemnas needs to know about this?"
"It wouldn't hurt to report in…" Exsor said after a moment of thought. "Do you want me to go?"
Axel nodded. "I've never liked talking to the boss."
"Ok, where do you want me to meet you after I report?" Exsor opened a dark portal, she had become rather well at it, Xemnas had made sure of that.
"I think I'll head back to the mansion, see what Roxas is doing in there."
Exsor nodded. "I'll meet you in the white room then?"
"See ya there." With that Axel walked off, a lazy wave of his hand departing Exsor.
With a bit of a sigh Exsor entered the dark portal. As she walked the corridors of darkness she let her mind wonder. For that brief moment Axel had held her close, she felt like she had a heart. She hoped Axel had felt it too, there was just no way she couldn't have a heart… not with the way she felt about him… Shaking her head to clear her mind Exsor chose a door in the darkness and exited her dark portal just outside of Xemnas' room. Taking a deep breath she knocked twice.
"What do you want?"
Opening the door quietly Exsor entered, closing it just as quietly behind her. She lowered her hood and spotted Xemnas, standing in front of his window. "I've come to report, master."
"Already?" Xemnas turned his head to look at Exsor.
"Yes sir. We spoke with Roxas. He says a friend of his, Kairi, was taken by someone from the Organization."
Xemnas frowned. "I never authorized anyone to lay hands on her…" He trailed off, his frown deepening. "And you believe what he says Exsor?"
Exsor nodded. "Yes sir, he seemed rather upset."
"Anything else I need to know about?" Xemnas was opening a dark portal, preparing to leave.
"No sir."
"You've brought me valuable information Exsor, keep it up." He turned away from her. "Oh, and Exsor, be wary, something's happening within the Organization that I don't seem to have control of, don't be bought off by lies."
Before Exsor could ask Xemnas what he meant by that he was gone. Frowning Exsor glanced around her. Now that it was brought to her mind she could feel the difference, looking back she remembered things that didn't seem right then, and now she realized something was indeed going wrong.
"And I have a bad feeling Xaldin's in the middle of it." Quickly opening a portal Exsor disappeared, running through the darkness until she reached the door she needed. Wrenching it open she burst through it, coming out in the white room. She looked around quickly, then proceeded to check all the other rooms in the mansion.
"No Axel." She muttered, running outside. It probably would have been quicker to draw up a portal, but Exsor wasn't thinking of that right now, all she could think about was finding Axel and warning him.
The Organization coat made it mighty hard to run, when she took a quick turn around a tree as she entered the woods she practically fell over, the coat not giving her enough room to maneuver. The farther she ran into the woods the thicker the dread grew, dread that she was too late. She didn't no why she felt like that, there was just a feeling in her… heart? That told her Axel was in danger, she wasn't about to lose Axel, he was the only one she had, she would NOT lose him.
Rounding another curve in the trail Exsor felt the tears rush into her eyes. She couldn't find him, she wouldn't be able to help him, she was going to lose him. Why didn't I see it sooner? Was I really that ignorant? It was right there in front of me the whole time! If he's hurt I'll never forgive my self.
Exsor was just about to collapse, the spear of pain in her ribs was too much to bear. Just as she was falling to her knees she saw him, not 10 yards in front of her. But what she saw almost made her break down in tears.
Axel was lying on his stomach on the ground, a small stream of blood coming from his mouth. His chakrams lay deserted at his side, just out of fingers reach. His eyes were closed, one eye swollen slightly from a long, deep cut that ran from his right temple to the bridge of his nose. There were several other cuts on him, his Organization coat littered with them.
Standing shakily to her feet Exsor stumbled toward him, trying in vain to stop her tears. She fell down beside him and reached out a shaking hand to touch his face. Just as she was about to push a strand of his flame red hair behind his ear a booted foot landed on Axel's back, hard enough to make a soft grunt of pain escape Axle's lips.
Quickly pulling herself together Exsor stood up, slowly drawing her eyes up from the persons boot, over their Organization coat, to their hooded face. When the person spoke his voice practically froze Exsor to the spot.
"I bet you thought you were safe, being Xemnas's favorite." Pushing his hood back Exsor's fear was realized, she was now looking up at Xaldin's smirking face.
