(rereads last update) GRAAAAA! DAMN YOU, XIGBAR AND YOUR STUPID NAME!
Xigbar - HEY! IT'S NOT MY FAULT YOU CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 'X' AND 'Z'!
-.- Stupid same sounding letters. -coff- .w. Heeeey, peeps! Psyco's back! (bows at the cheers and dodges the pitchforks) . ; Uh, ehehe, yeah. Once again I didn't let ANQ3 beta this chapter so if there's anything wrong, BLAME XIGBAR!
Xigbar - Don't start with me! I'll shoot you!
O.O VIOLENCE! . Jeeze, old man, calm down.
Xigbar - I'M NOT OLD! -- Whippersnapper.
. Keep telling yourself that, granny! (runs from an angry Xigbar)
Xigbar - YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM ME! (shoots)
AAAAAHHHHH!
Zexion - . . . . Uh, start chapter.
"Bwahaha!" Vexen cackled as he loomed over the defeated Axel. "I am no child molester!" He raised the book in a silent threat and Axel cowered.
"Please don't hurt me, Vexen!" He pleaded, his green eyes filled with terror. "I'm sorry! I take back all that I said! In fact, you're the coolest Nobody ever! I'm no where near as cool as you!"
Vexen smirked. It was about time that boy learned some manners. He opened his mouth to say something but a far off voice cut him off. He blinked wearily and looked off into the distance. "What was that?"
Vexen…! Vexen…!
"Who's calling me?" Vexen asked, turning around. Axel blinked and shook his head.
Vexeeeen…! Answer me…!
"What?"
Answer me!
Vexen awoke with a start when someone pounded on his bedroom door. He groaned as his vision came back to him and pushed himself up. Vexen growled an 'I'm coming' as he swung his legs over the edge of his bed and yawned, stretching out his tired, worn skeletal system. He buried his feet into his pair of fuzzy moogle slippers and wrapped his white moogle-printed housecoat around him.
"Are you up yet, granny?" The voice asked from the other side of his door. Vexen grumbled and shuffled his way to the door. "Graaaaanny!"
"What?" Vexen snapped as he threw open his door and glared at the Nobody before him. It took him a few seconds to recognize who it was, and when he did, he scowled. "What is it, Axel? Did my Demyx get into my lab again?"
"Nope. What took you so long?" Axel asked, a smirk on his face. "Couldn't find your walker?" Vexen glared. "Whatever the matter, granny, today we're going to train the newbs."
"We?" Vexen raised an eyebrow.
"Well, not you and me, but Zexion. I thought I'd warn you ahead of time so you can properly prepare any potions or other medical crap they'll need."
Vexen just looked at Axel. "You mean you're going to set them up against something they can't take?"
"Meh, I was thinking a Heartless or two. Anyways, we'll be back before the sun sets, have the potions ready by then, granny. Got it memorized?" And with that, Axel summoned a vortex and walked into it.
"...Why me?" Vexen sighed.
Zexion mentally sighed as he looked at his nifty Shadow Heartless watch. The group of teenagers had been in weaponry room for well over fifteen minutes! Hurry up and choose your weapons! He mentally growled. Zexion had found a very interesting book of brain teasers and he was very eager to get back to it.
As if on cue, the teenagers filled out the room. Aiko was holding a wooden staff that was a good foot taller than her. The top of the staff curled to form a protective cage around some black orb that resembled the Cornerstone. She was smiling over at Dysis, who was scowling and rubbing her head. Apparently, Zexion concluded, she had whacked her friend on the head. So that was the source of the yelping noise.
Her said friend was also holding a staff, but hers resembled a pole, rather than a staff. It had some words from a different language carved into it, all in a spiral pattern. Zexion looked at the others and raised an eyebrow. Sanura and Sebastian both held swords. Sebastian's sword had a cavity in the middle of the curved end (obviously designed to cause more damage to the enemy) and the handle was a deep red color, the very end of the handle was the head of a malicious looking dragon. Sanura's sword was very similar to Sebastian's, save for the fact that her sword didn't have a cavity in it nor did it have the dragon's head at the end of it.
Lexis was attaching something on her waist and Zexion craned his neck to see what it was. He raised his eyebrows. She chose throwing stars, and from what he'd seen when he occasionally ran in there to seek shelter from Xemnas (after all, he didn't fight, why would he be with the weapons?), they weren't friendly looking. She patted the case before looking up and smiling brightly at him, despite the time. "Good morning, Zexion." He nodded.
"I take it you all are ready?" The collective nods were his answer.
"Excellent!" Axel said, popping up from nowhere. "Well, Heartless chow, lets see how good you all are." With a wave of his hand, a black portal appeared across from them all. The Wonder Group looked at the portal before looking back at Axel, as if to say that they were not stepping in there. Axel sighed. "Well, if you won't go voluntarily," He grumbled, holding his arms out and summoning his weapons. "Then I'll just have to use force!"
Needless to say, it got most of them moving (Lexis was beginning to aim her star at Axel but her friends dragged her though the vortex). The five of them stared in awe as colors twirled around them. A few seconds later and everything went white, forcing them to close their eyes least they be blinded. When they reopened it, they were in a jungle like area.
"Heeeey," Sanura looked at the tall trees as some random breed of bird Heartless flew overhead. "Are we in Tarzan's world?"
"If we are, I wanna go Jungle Slidin'!" Dysis said, throwing her fist into the air.
"What I wanna do is maul a certain redhead." Lexis growled, scanning the area for Axel.
"NOOO! YOU CAN'T KILL AXEL!" Dysis cried. "Yeah, he's a bastard, but at least he's a sexy bastard."
"I have to disagree with you on the sexy part."
The group jumped and turned to the source of the voice. Zexion was looking mildly amused. Axel, who was standing a few feet behind Zexion, grinned. "Yeah? See, Zexi, I told you that I was better looking. You just need to learn to accept it. I'm sexy. You're not. Got it memorized?"
"As if." Lexis scoffed. "Anywho, when do we get to fight?" Zexion (who was a bit peeved at this point) looked at the redhead. They silently communicated for a few seconds before Zexion turned back to them.
"Well, since you're so eager," he raised a hand and a dark orb floated above the palm before disappearing. Small scratching noises were heard as shadows started to take form. "You can start now. Have fun." And with that, Zexion disappeared in a pillow of black smoke.
"Lexis!" Sebastian yelled as the shadows began to push themselves off the ground and began to corner them. "Stop getting us in trouble!"
"Whatever!" She rolled her eyes. "Let's fight. CHARGE!"
The battle was intense but it was now winding down. The enemy was cornered and back to back to one another, weary of fighting. A fighter struck out and the enemy ducked. Taking advantage of the enemy's mishap, a bold fighter jumped on one of the cowering enemy and said enemy shrieked. The others were quick to help their friend out.
Perched on a tree branch, Axel buried his face in his hands and groaned. "Zexiooooon! Look at them! Getting schooled by Shadows! SHADOWS for Superior's sake!" He growled. "You gotta be kidding me!"
Zexion, who was sitting on the branch as well, also had his face buried in his hands. "And to think they were so energetic, too. I really had my hopes up." He parted his fingers and looked at the group who were swiping randomly at Shadows. He wondered how they didn't kill one another in the process.
After about ten minutes, the group managed to get rid of them. Dysis let out a cheer and proceeded to do her victory dance, which included the moonwalk around the sweat dropping group. "Oh yeah! We won! We won! Oh yeah! Boogie down now! Oh! Oh!" Dysis started to hop around and pretty much continue to act a fool for another minute before trusting a fist into the air and declaring in a happy voice "Yahoo! Watashi wa kattaze!"
"Hey! You didn't win this battle by yourself!" Lexis pulled the smaller girl into a headlock and proceeded to give her a noogie. Dysis screeched and flailed her arms in vain attempt to get the older girl off her. Lexis only laughed and released her after a second.
"Stupid monkey." Dysis growled as she fixed her hair. Lexis beamed with pride. "Anywho, where's Axel and Zex?"
"Right here." Axel growled as he hopped down from the branch. "What the hell was that? Honestly!"
"Hey! Cut us some slack! You don't go throwing people into a battle like that." Aiko tried her best to leer at Axel but he only crossed his arms and glared.
"Shadow Heartless."
"Oh, Axel, don't you know? Dysis can't fight those!" Sanura's eyes gleamed with mischief and Dysis caught on.
"Shut up, Sanura! I was cornered and I forgot how to properly fight in that game!" Dysis growled, the memory of her friend having to save her from Shadow Heartless fresh in her mind. (-.- Stupid Shadows).
"Well anyways, that was pathetic." Axel said, glowering at them. They glowered back. Sighing, he pulled out five green vials and tossed it to them, one for each. "Drink up. Until you improve your fighting, you're not going back to the castle."
"What? We'll starve!" Sanura protested, her eyes wide with horror. No food!
"Well then I suggest you improve your fighting. Ta ta." He idly waved a hand and disappeared into the bushes.
"…I say we kill him." Lexis growled as Shadows started to take shape once again.
"Yes! It's about time!" Axel said as he reappeared onto the battle field. All fighters were leaning on their weapons or on the ground. "How many hours was that? Five? Six?"
"FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD."
"Yeah. I think its time to head back." Axel turned around and faced Zexion (who magically appeared behind him) and beamed. "Let's go."
Zexion leaned over Axel and looked at the scowling and groaning teenagers. "…First, I think we should send them to Vexen."
"Ah, give them a Hi-Potion." Axel said as he summoned a portal. "Come on! Food awaits you on the other side!" He turned around and his eyes widened whenthe groupwas suddenly brought to life and charging at him. He was sure he was going to get trampled to death but Zexion yanked him out of the way at the last second.
"Haven't you learned from Larxene? Don't stand in the way of a woman and her food." Zexion sighed, dragging Axel in through the portal.
After the girls raided the fridge and Sebastian finished picking at the remains, they headed for Vexen's lab. Upon entering it, they were almost instantly scared out of the room.
"Okay, who'd think that Vexen could get so… evil." Sebastian shuddered as he remembered the eerie glare on the older man's face. "Very disturbing."
"Well if you don't want me to be so "evil" looking, don't enter my lab." Vexen growled, emerging from the shadows of the dark lab room. "The only time you are to enter my lab is if this castle catches on fire—which won't happen—to save my experiments."
"Buh what if the Superior comes?" Dysis asked.
"Then he may enter my lab, not any of you adolescence. If your IQ is lower than 150, you're not allowed to enter." Vexen pointed to a sign which stated what he just said.
"But what about Zexion?" Aiko asked, rubbing her arm.
"My IQ is 194, thank you." Zexion answered. The group of teens looked at him like he grew another head. "Vexen, the potions?"
"Ah, yes," Vexen turned around and disappeared into the room, emerging a few seconds later with a test tube rack. "Here." He handed it to Aiko. She carefully took one of the tubes before handing it to Sanura.
"Is this poisonous?" Lexis asked as she looked at the light green liquid. "'Cause I don't want to visit Hades just yet."
"No, it's not poisonous." Vexen said, looking over at her. "It's a Hi-Potion/Ether mix. Good for you. Drink it."
The group looked at each other before Sebastian just shrugged and drank the mix. Seeing how nothing bad happened to him, the others followed his lead.
"Ewww!" Dysis made a face and ran her tongue over her teeth in an attempt to get the taste out of her mouth. "It tastes like medicine! Nasty!"
"Don't complain." Zexion said, shaking his head at the girl.
"I'm tired… and lost." Sanura whined, looking around. "Bed. Now. Sleep."
"Very well," Zexion waved his hand and started walking down the hall. "Those of you who are tired, follow me, I'll take you back to your quarters." The Wonder Group looked at each other, then at Vexen, before deciding to follow the blue haired man. "I suggest you get a good night's sleep. Axel will come wake you up the same time tomorrow." Zexion said as he turned the corner. The group only groaned in response.
Ugh. Cruddy chapter. -.- Anywho, n.n here's your update! Oh! A major thank you to all my reviewers! (hands out cookies) Thank you all!
- Special thanks to horsie890 for pointing out my missing page break. nn; Thanks!
