Alright I finally have gotten another chapter done for this story! Woo! Sorry it took so long, but I really had a long time thinking how Chain of Memories would go with Saix being there. But I think I finally got it! Also thanks to my friend TheDeadGirlRisen for helping be my second set of eyes for editing on this chapter! She has written her first Kingdom Hearts story! So check it out if you want!
Now let's get to the Chain of Memories!

Ch.5

After Saix had his small chat with Axel, he prepared to leave for Castle Oblivion with the other five members; Vexen, Lexaeus, Zexion, Marluxia, and Larxene. As Saix gathered what was needed, he briefly thought about Roxas. It was far too early in the morning for him to be awake so there would be no chance of seeing him before leaving. Saix frowned ever so slightly at the thought before focusing himself back at the task at hand.

Soon enough he met up with the other members at the entrance of the castle, though he did not speak much to them. He never really had a need to talk to any of the other members before, but now he knew there would be instances were that would be the case.

Waiting for everyone at the entrance of the castle was Axel, standing right next to a corridor of darkness. He stood there with his hands full of various papers and notebooks, looking through a few of them before everyone was there. There was a brief discussion over the plans that were to go down at Castle Oblivion, involving the keyblade master boy and various other things. Once the discussion was done the six members entered into the portal and exited out over at the second castle.

Saix had known about the castle for sometime, hearing things from Axel and some of the other members. No one truly knew though where it came from though, or how its unnatural magic worked, or even how long it had been there. But there were many more mysterious than just that hidden within the castle. Saix knew that it would be a challenge to look through this entire castle, but he had to at least attempt to do some of it.

The group split up after entering into the castle, with Vexen, Lexaeus, and Zexion heading to the basement section of the castle and the remaining three headed up to the top level. Once up there they entered into one of the rooms, and there sitting in the very empty and white room was a young girl. A young girl with blue eyes and shoulder length blonde hair; Namine.

Saix had heard about her from the meeting briefings long before leaving for Castle Oblivion, but he had never seen her until now. She quietly sat in the corner of her room, drawing in a large sketchbook. At the sound of the three entering, she slowly lifted her head and looked over at them. She seemed to tense up a little, holding her sketchbook across her chest, but did not make an attempt to say anything or move.

Saix almost wanted to feel bad for her. It was not her choice to be held up here, nor did Saix believe she truly wanted to go through with what they were going to make her do. He knew though that they needed her for the Organization's plan, her special abilities were what made her stand out from the rest of them. And those unique abilities is what they needed to go forth with their plans. But still Saix pitied her ever so slightly.

Once the preparations were set, all they had to do is wait until the last key element was in place. And that element being none other than the keyblade master boy himself. They just needed to wait until he was close enough to the castle. Namine was to inform Marluxia as soon as the boy was within close proximity to the castle, but until then they had to wait.

A whole entire day had passed by with nothing to report, but after that Namine informed that Sora was near. As soon as her words were spoken Marluxia took off in order to try to lure Sora to the castle. Saix carefully watched as Marluxia drew Sora in, using seemingly harmless words, but in truth they were manipulative words. Words meant to trick and deceive Sora into easily falling into Marluxia's trap. Saix made sure to keep track of all of this, as he watched the event play out. He knew though that eventually he would have to step in one way or another.

Time had passed and Sora had made it through the first floor of Castle Oblivion. Marluxia had left the room again to go down to meet with Sora again, though this time Saix felt like he should interfere a bit. Not just because he felt like it needed to, but there was more to it than he really realized.

"Well, Sora? Did you enjoy meeting your memories?" Marluxia asked, his hood still up as he was not yet wanting to reveal himself to Sora yet.

"Yeah, it was good to see everyone. But what do you really want from me?" Sora asked.

"What do you have to give?" Marluxia asked as he started to walk towards the group.

Sora, Donald, and Goofy all summoned their weapons, preparing to fight. But before Marluxia could get any closer Saix stepped out from a dark corridor behind him. He didn't speak a word, but he knew that his presence was enough to get Marluxia's attention. In this time Saix looked over at Sora, the keyblade master. The boy who was the Somebody of Roxas.

"What do you want?" Marluxia asked as he did in fact stop and turn his attention over to Saix.

"I came to observe the so called hero," Saix stated. While he did want to keep an eye on Marluxia there was still that other reason. Now seeing Sora right in front of him realize what it was. He was actually a little bit curious to see Sora. His curiosity had been peeked at having the chance to see him. After all Saix had spend time with his Nobody. So getting the chance to see Sora in action was really something to want to see.

Marluxia's turned his head back slightly, "If you wish to observe him, then perhaps you'd like to test him instead."

"Perhaps," Saix simply replied.

With the flick of the wrist Marluxia sent over the next card to Saix, who caught it with ease. A dark corridor formed around Marluxia and he was gone within the next second, leaving Saix to deal with Sora on his own. He focused his eyes back onto Sora, who was staring back trying to figure out what exactly had just happened.

"Well keyblade master, we finally get the chance to meet," Saix started.

"Okay?" Sora asked, still trying to figure everything out.

"If you must know, my name is Saix," Saix then added.

"Um...alright?"

"Well Sora," Saix said as he took a step closer. "Now that introductions are over," Saix held out his hand and summoned his claymore, "Let's see how great of a hero you really are."

In response Sora and his friends summoned their weapons and took to their battle stances. Saix found himself smiling a little, this wasn't just going to be a casual fight. This was a fight that was going to be far more interesting.

Saix had fought alongside Roxas plenty of times, but he had never actually engaged in a fight with Roxas. He had seen how Roxas fought against the Heartless thought, so it gave some idea of how possible Sora may fight. But it was still very possible that Sora had a completely different way of fighting. All of it made Saix wonder more and become more intrigued in being able to fight Sora.

Without a word Saix raised his claymore into an offensive position and lunged directly at Sora. The battle had begun and it barely gave Sora anytime to prepare, but just as Saix was about to strike Sora tumbled over to the side. After Sora regained his stance he charged at Saix and prepared an attack, swinging his keyblade from different angles, hoping one of the attack would hit.

Saix managed to block almost every attack, but he had underestimated Sora's speed. He moved much quicker than he had even seen Roxas move. Dodging Sora's attacks became far more of a challenge that Saix had originally expected. Though Sora had forgotten all of his magic and attacks since entering Castle Oblivion, he still was able to somehow quickly regain his strength. It still was far from enough to even come close to wearing Saix out though. This was all just a beginning test fight against Sora really. Saix wanted to give it his all, but as the battle progressed Sora was still reforming his power so he was nowhere near his full strength.

Not wanting to use up all his energy in this battle, Saix let Sora get a few more hits on him before he disappeared from Sora's sight and from the battle entirety. Though he made sure leave the next card behind for Sora to take.

Saix didn't leave the area though, he sneakily had used a corridor of darkness to take him over to the staircase leading. He made sure that Sora and his friend did not see him at first, and they didn't seem to as Sora reached up and picked up the card that was left.

"Another one. What's it do?" Goofy asked.

Jiminy Cricket climbed up onto Sora's shoulder and looked over the card, "Hmm. Kinda looks like the card you used when you made Traverse Town."

"Then I guess we're gonna need it to keep going…" Sora said as he looked over the card again.

Saix knew that any moment now Sora and his friends would notice him standing there, not that he really cared if they did or didn't spot him. He wanted to still be there, there was still things that needed to be said. Things that would help push Sora further down into Castle Oblivion.

"Saix! He's still here!" Donald yelled as he pointed towards Saix.

The three summoned their weapons again as Saix decided to take a few steps closer. He held up his hand as he approached. "Do you really believe that I would be defeated that easily?"

Without taking his eyes off of Saix, or lighting the grip on his keyblade Sora spoke up, "So you were just testing us."

Saix nodded, "Yes you are correct, I was testing you. I wanted to see how your strength faired after losing it all since coming here. And I must congratulate you Sora, you have done well. Now you can continue to follow your memories through Castle Oblivion. In doing so you will be able to seek what you have forgotten. That will lead you to finding someone very special."

"You mean King Mickey and Riku?" Goofy asked.

"Perhaps, but you may want to think more carefully who it may be. Think deeply on who is most important to you. The most precious memories lie deep within a person's heart, but sometimes they are far out of reach. But I know you will be able to find yours, Sora." Saix explained. He knew it was all a lie, all of this was the plan setup to get Sora to pretty much lose all of his memories, but he had to go along with it. He had to do it… for now at least.

"Why… me?" Sora asked.

"You have lost sight of things...the light within the darkness. You have forgotten more than you realize," Saix replied, choosing his words carefully.

"The light within darkness…" Sora muttered as he stood up straight.

A thought occurred to Saix as he looked over at Sora, who still seemed to be pondering things. Sora had already forgotten a lot already, but he still was pretty much himself, but how easily could he be deceived. It was a thought that Saix decided he might as well try. He crossed his arms, "If you so choose, I can give you a hint if you so desire."

Sora stared down at the ground, seeming to be deep in thought. He stared at the ground for a bit, his eyes seemed to be clouded with doubt.

"Is he really going to give up so easily?" Saix pondered.

Goofy looked over at his friend, a little worried, "Sora...do ya need it?"

Sora then looked up at Saix and glared, "I'm gonna figure it out for myself. If you're in my way…" Sora jumped back into his battle position.

Donald jumped in front of Sora, "Don't worry, Sora! We'll protect you!" Donald glared quite angrily at Saix, ready to strike at any minute.

Saix found himself to be chuckling a little, "That is good to hear. Something like that is what I would expect from you, the keyblade master. But be forewarned… You should know that when your sleeping memories reawaken, you may not be who you once were."

Before Sora or anyone else could say a word Saix disappeared back into a corridor of darkness, leaving Sora alone with his thoughts. Back at the top floor Saix had some time to himself. He took this time to think over his encounter with Sora. It wasn't fully what he had expected, but at the same time it felt like it was. Seeing Sora and getting to fight him...it was hard for Saix to put his thoughts together on it, he didn't know how to phrase all of it. But he did know it was very intriguing and he was curious to see what would happen to Sora the further he went into Castle Oblivion.

So yeah, this whole Chain of Memories section will be set up into several chapters I hope. I will see how the second one goes though.
But thank you all for reading! Thanks for all the favorites, reviews, and follows and everything! It really means a lot to me!
So I shall see you guys in the next chapter or in another story!