The members of Organization 13 were in the white meeting room of whiteness, having a meeting, while in the meeting room, which was white.

"So, Xemnas, what do you want to talk to us about today?" Xigbar asked.

"The same thing as yesterday, silly," Xemnas answered.

"Dude, we didn't have a meeting yesterday…'silly'," Demyx pointed out.

"Oh." Xemnas blinked confusedly before looking back at the others. "Well, then we're going to talk about rocks."

Everyone else:……………

"Why…are we talking about……rocks?" Axel asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Because they rock the freakin' world!" Xemnas exclaimed joyfully. He then began to laugh. "No pun intended! Ahahahaha!"

"It totally was intended," Saix mumbled.

"Now, time for roll call. Axel?"

"If I wasn't here, then you would notice; believe me," Axel said matter-of-factly.

"Xemnas?" There was silence. "Xemnas, where are you, dammit!"

"Um, you are Xemnas…" Zexion said carefully.

"Oh, yeah!" Xemnas laughed. He cleared his throat and looked back at his attendance sheet, checking himself off. "Continuing…Marluxia?"

"Here!" Marluxia answered cheerfully. He looked at a flower that he held in his hand. "Yes, we are here, aren't we pretty flower?" he cooed in a high pitched voice as if talking to a baby. "Yes we are! Yes we are!"

"Xigbar?"

"Save the flower cuddling for when we aren't here, okay?" Xigbar growled at Marluxia.

"Shut up, Xiggy!" Marluxia snapped childishly.

Xigbar rose his weapon and shot Marluxia's flower, singing it off of the stem. While Marluxia gasped in horror, Xigbar grinned evilly.

"Yeah, Xigbar's definitely here," Xemnas said, checking him off. "Larxene?"

"Why do I have to be the only woman in the Organization?" Larxene whined.

"We're working on getting another one! Relax!" Xemnas said exasperatedly. "Demyx?"

"Larxene, you aren't the only woman here," Demyx said with a grin. "Don't forget about Marluxia."

"Luxord?" The only noise in the room was the sound of Demyx and Marluxia attacking each other. "Luxord?" Xemnas repeated a little louder. He scanned the room to see Luxord playing a card game with Saix.

"Hit me," Luxord said, watching his cards. Saix punched him in the face. "Ow! Not literally; I mean put down another card, you idiot!"

"Well, be more clear about what you mean next time!" Saix snapped. Xemnas checked both Luxord and Saix off the list. Yes, they were definitely here.

"Zexion?"

"I love not being last on the list because I'm at the end of the alphabet!" Zexion exclaimed happily.

"Xaldin?"

"Did you know Xald rhymes with bald?" Xaldin asked innocently.

"You asked me that a week ago," Xemnas said patiently, checking off Xaldin's name. "Lexaeus?"

"He is present!" Lexaeus answered.

"Honestly, Lex, stop talking in third person. You're starting to sound like that Gollum guy…Vexen?"

"Why do you think it's so cold in here? You know they don't install air conditioning in the World That Never Was," Vexen stated.

"Vex, I know it's a hot day, but you could take the cold down a little bit…And Roxas?" There was no answer. "Roxas? Roxas!"

"Um, he's not here and I know nothing about it," Axel said guiltily. "So, Xemnas, you wanted to talk about rocks?"

"Where is he! This is the fourth meeting he hasn't shown up to in a month and a half!" Xemnas bared his teeth, like a lion, or a tiger, or a bear. Oh my!

"Axel, I am REALLY angry right now!" Xemnas growled.

"I can see that," Axel muttered.

"If you don't tell me where Roxas is, I will turn you into a Dusk for a year!"

Everyone in the room had stopped to stare from Xemnas to Axel, their mouths open. Xemnas had not made a serious threat like that since Demyx had decided the Organization needed an indoor swimming pool so that they could have swimming parties during Christmas. Half the Organization had covered for him and Xemnas would have turned them all into Dusks for the next three months if it were not for the fact that he needed more than half of the Organization to be able to do his bidding.

Anyway!

Axel's face had paled. He looked down at the floor, his eyebrows contracting. He took out his weapons and lit them on fire, glaring up at Xemnas.

"You'll have to make me," he growled.

"Okay," Xemnas shrugged. There was a flash of light and Xemnas turned into a very large, white dragon thing. Axel flew at him to attack, but Xemnas knocked him to the ground, knocking his weapons out of his hands as well. He changed back into a person and picked up Axel's weapons, making them disappear. Axel raised his head from the floor to look at Xemnas. "Are you sure you won't tell me?" Xemnas asked quietly.

Axel thought about it. If he told, then Xemnas would turn Roxas into a Dusk for a year. If he did not tell, then the same thing would happen to him instead and Roxas would get off. Axel really did not want to be a Dusk, but he could not betray Roxas, so he nodded.

"Fine!" Xemnas yelled. "Fwoosh!" He pointed his hands at Axel, who instantly became a Dusk. Xemnas and most of the others began to laugh as they saw Axel, usually one of the Organization's toughest members, looking around from a much shorter height. Demyx and Larxene were the only ones present that were not laughing, for they were Axel's friends.

Axel felt highly embarrassed. He tried to talk, but found that he could not. He tried to use his fire powers to smoke everyone that was laughing at him, but it did not work. He looked around the white room, now blending in quite well, and felt panicked. He looked up at Xemnas sadly. That is, he would have looked sad if he had had a face.

"Leave, Dusk!" Xemnas commanded. "Organization meetings are for Organization members only, not powerless little Nobodies."

But all of us are Nobodies, Axel thought. He slithered out of the room to find Roxas. He felt angry that Roxas continued to go off to do things during meetings, not caring that he was leaving Axel to cover for him. The new Dusk could understand doing it once, maybe twice, but four times? That was a lot to ask from a friend.

Axel was in the entrance hall of the castle. He knew Roxas would be outside somewhere, so he did not bother to check anywhere inside the castle. He was almost at the doors when he heard an all too familiar sound behind him. He turned around to see Demyx and Larxene appearing before him.

"Hey, Axel," Larxene said sympathetically. "Are you okay?"

Axel nodded.

"You know, man, that was pretty cool of you not to give Roxas away like that," Demyx said. Axel would have rolled his eyes and snorted at that moment, except for the fact that his body did not have those kinds of functions anymore. God, it had only been five minutes and he was already aching to be back in his own body.

"So, where is Roxas, anyway?" Larxene asked. Axel gestured toward the castle doors. He felt so worthless as a Dusk. He immediately made a mental note to be nicer to them in the future.

Without waiting for another word from Demyx and Larxene, Axel went outside. He moved creepily around the grounds until he found Roxas collecting flowers in a basket. He slid across the ground and over to him, straightening upright. Roxas looked up in irritation.

"What do you want?" he asked, annoyed. Axel wanted to let out a growl. He beckoned for Roxas to follow him. Roxas raised an eyebrow, wondering why he should be following orders from a Dusk. Axel gestured more aggressively and Roxas followed anyway.

They went up to Axel's room. Roxas set his basket of flowers on the desk and glared at the Dusk sternly.

"Hey, you shouldn't be in here," he said. "This is Axel's room. He won't like it if he finds a Dusk in here."

Axel wanted to hit something. Instead, he ripped a piece of paper out of his notebook. He then picked up a pen and wrote down his dilemma for Roxas to read.

"Axel?" Roxas asked, looking at the Dusk. "Really?" The Dusk nodded. "So…you're saying you got turned into a Dusk because you wouldn't tell Xemnas what I was doing?" Axel nodded again. Roxas looked around the room guiltily. "Thanks, Axel."

Axel wanted to hit him. He lied down on his bed, turning his back on Roxas.

"Axel, no one knows then what I was doing outside, right?" Roxas asked nervously. Axel raised his-um….hand? Yeah, we're just going to refer to it as a hand since I don't know the proper anatomy of a Dusk. He raised his hand then flopped it back down as a yes. "So they don't know why I was picking flowers?"

Axel turned over in frustration, nodding vigorously. He rolled back over to face the wall, feeling angry. All he wanted right now was to go back to being Axel, not a little helpless Dusk. That was all he wanted, and he wanted it desperately.

And to think, he thought to himself, this is all because Roxas desperately wants Marluxia. Damn, that is wrong!