Demyx knew it would be disorienting, but landing on his face wasn't exactly how he'd thought this would go.

"Legs… I know I abandoned you… but don't do this to me." he mumbled into the ground. He hadn't even taken but one step out of the portal for them to give out. His body was convinced it still had a tail.

He rolled over and sat up, looking around. He'd only been here a few times, and the best thing about the place was if you were sent here, you could find a nice place to nap fairly easily and even if someone was sent to find you, it would take hours. Then you'd have the excuse of "I got lost." Which of course no one bought after his seventh time. Even Roxas wasn't that bad. Lucky for Luxord enough of the times were genuine so he was assigned to his home world more than the other members were assigned to it.

"Where would he even be…?" Demyx muttered as he shakily stood up. He stretched his legs a few times and took a few cautious steps. "I reeeeaally don't want to go to the castle if I don't have to… that lady wanted to chop off my head just cause I was napping instead of something with birds..."

Demyx groaned at the searching he'd have to do. Luxord could be anywhere and this world tended to take you to the first place you wanted to go last. He figured he could check near the white rabbit's house first. That rabbit went so many places screaming about being late that he had to have seen him.

No surprise to Demyx, he walked for quite a long time before reaching the place. The path would somehow switch on him and he'd already visited the doorknob who hadn't seen either of his friends, to the queen's garden where the cards hadn't seen anyone, met a girl named Alice who was the only one who made any sense, but sadly she was also on the list of people who hadn't seen Marluxia or Larxene. There had been a very interesting flower garden he hadn't seen before that he knew Marluxia would love as the flowers actually talked back. Then again…. Marluxia might not like the fact they talked back as they could be pretty snarky. Larxene would love them as long as they weren't snarky to her.

Demyx was now walking on a path he was pretty sure led to the hatter's home, but the whole situation still made him want to cry out of frustration. He wasn't used to having such strong emotions after such a long time. Sure he had been growing his heart back, but at the most he'd be only a little angry, or just a touch sad. Not 'I want to punch that tree and scream and cry' type of feeling.

It was comforting to know that Larxene at least was ok, but seeing her leave and not knowing where she was… And he didn't even know where to start searching for Marluxia. He didn't want to think about it but the ache of his heart at not being with his friends wouldn't exactly let him forget that the two of them were out there somewhere.

Demyx reached a gate. There was the sound of badly off key singing, tea pots bubbling, and the clatter of china. He took a deep breath and pushed it open.

There were plenty of chairs for the whole organization at least, but he only saw that a few were taken. The tallest and closest chair occupied faced away from him and was a padded one you'd see in someone's house, not outside in the lawn. He approached it hoping that maybe this time he'd get some help, but a loud voice called out "TEA TIME" and a rabbit suddenly appeared out of no where and shoved him into a seat farther away and pushed him into it.

Suddenly laden with about three and a half tea cups in hand and two biscuts precariously balanced on their rims, he, as still as he could, turned to face the man sitting across from him who was trying to now give him some sugar.

"Have you seen a man named Luxord anywhere around here?"

"JAM you need some JAM for those tea cups! SWITCH SEATS!" the short man screamed, his head moving so fast that he almost lost his overly large hat.

Being jostled out of his seat, the teacups finally fell and he was shoved into another chair, this one next to the first one he had seen. He was finally able to see who was in it and nearly fell out of his new chair.

"Luxord!" he shouted.

"Why are you so surprised to see me? You've been looking for me, haven't you?" Luxord asked, shuffling a stack of playing cards in his hands. He wasn't in his cloak anymore, unlike Demyx. Instead, he had a dark green hat, thankfully a decent size unlike his loud companion, and a dark orange jacket.

Demyx took a second to reply, "Well yeah but I guess I just thought I never would in this place."

Luxord started to place the cards on the table to play solitaire like he would in the grey room. "It's only once you expect not to find something here that you will."

"Well that sounds extremely frustrating." Demyx stated.

Luxord didn't look up from his cards, "What did you want to find me for? Certainly not something for the organization. Last I know of them, Sora only had Xemnas to challenge."

Demyx almost didn't want to ask so he wouldn't be disappointed. "I'm looking for Marluxia and Larxene."

Luxord's eyebrows went up, "Well that certainly wasn't expected. Looking for me as a way of looking for them. Not to mention it wasn't exactly a secret they disliked you."

He shifted a bit in his seat at that remark, "Yeah… but have you seen them?"

"I have not." Luxord finished his game and gathered the cards up again to reshuffle.

"... do you know where they might be?" Demyx prodded.

"Marluxia is from Neverland, and unfortunetly Larxene was even more tight lipped than him about her home world."

Demyx slouched into the chair, "I was just there, though…"

"Unless you sprouted legs I doubt you'd be able to properly search the island." Luxord stated as he laid out the cards again.

Demyx's eyes slowly narrowed and a face of exaggerated suspicion formed, "How would you know about that?"

He finally glanced up at Demyx, eyebrow quirked, "It isn't exactly hard to figure out."

Demyx sighed, "Yeah ok. But either way, I was just there and only briefly saw Larxene before she left again. Do you at least have a suggestion about where to go next?"

Luxord stopped playing his game and crossed his arms, thinking. "It's difficult to say without a motive to trace. I would say start with the bigger ones we'd been assigned the most." With that he waved his hand and summoned a portal. "That should take you to Agrabah. I doubt Marluxia would like it there but it's a decent world to ask around. Certainly less confudling than this one."

Demyx glanced at the portal and stood up, "You wanna come with? I mean, I don't want to be in the organization again but…"

Luxord thought about it for a moment and returned to his game, "Maybe at some point I'll travel through the worlds. Port Royal was rather fun. For the moment though, I'm rather content being here. I'd forgotten what it feels like to actually be home."

"Maybe I'll see you there then." he smiled.

Luxord smiled back and went back to his game, "Perhaps you will."

Demyx waved and walked into the portal, away from the most exhausting of worlds.