'Late at night I've been thinking to myself more and more about how I became to be Nobody...' The words faintly echoed in my head before being cut off.
A small, girlish giggle escaped from the only female member of the Organization's lips. It was funny how something that usually was sweet could chill the blood of even the bravest of men. Not even Lexaus, number V, could hold back a shutter from one of Larxene's fake innocence.
"It's such a pity though…" I couldn't help but tilt my head, mildly interested in what she meant by that. "I really didn't want to have to be the one to ruin such a cute face," the electric she-devil used her empty hand to cup my chin and turned my head from left to right like a judge would when viewing an animal of some sort.
Sighing she released my face then smirked. "Oh well. We can't let you go or the cat might be out of the bag too early. You understand, don't you?" Electrical currents pulsated around the brightly hued kuni.
"NO! I don't think I know why you just had to bust into my room and molest my face then talk about killing me as if there's nothing wrong with it!" My outburst caused her smirk to turn into a small frown. Her eyes however held a notion of confusion. Heh, she didn't know that I could have a backbone since I never liked displaying that side for others to see. Cleaning was so much easier then missions anyway.
The light yellow volts still buzzed around the blades of the Japanese weapon in a rhythmic crackle which only electricity at high levels can produce. So she was still going to kill me… Maybe I could keep her distracted by showing her a little more of my true self. If I lived by some amazing miracle then no one would believe her that I could be assertive.
"What did I ever do to you? You busted into my room wanting to talk and now you want to kill me! That's not cool and the worst part is that you didn't even knock!" There was that look of confusion again but it was short lived. What once was confusion was now anger. I think I went just a little too far…
"Demyx…" She placed two fingers over my lips after I had finished my little rant and sighed irritated. "I'm going to do everyone a big favor and just kill you now," she finished her sentence with a terribly forced giggle as she raised her chosen weapon.
Damn it, this just wasn't my day. At least it wouldn't matter much longer since I clearly am going to die in about… Say three seconds. Give or take a few depending on how long the second to last in rank wanted to take in extinguishing my life.
I closed my eyes then decided against it and opened them once more to look directly at the fate before me. She was the first to see my serious side; she might as well be the first and last person to realize that my existence didn't really mean much to me like it might have to the other members.
I stared unblinking as her arm seemed to fall down towards my chest at a snails speed. Everything was in slow motion. Her cruel girlish giggles, the blade racing towards my chest, the snapping of ten thousand plus volts rushing around the blue kuni, and even my own breathing. This was the end. Or so I had thought till a funny thing happened.
The electric bitch skidded across the floor backwards! The look on her face was one in a million and one I doubt I would ever forget till the day I'd breath my last nonexistent breath. It was like-like throwing water over a sleeping cat! She gave the same look of hatred and bloodcurdling rage a wet cat gave off just after the clear expression of pissing itself scared.
Wait a minute… It dawned on me that someone else had clearly interfered with my death sentence but- I stopped in dead center of thought when I noticed the thick green cords that clung tightly around the female's arms and wrist that she struggled to try and remove.
"Marluxia! What's the deal? You told me to get rid of him after we found out who's chair it was! Get these vines off me!" XII struggled around until the mentioned pink haired member stepped out of the shadows.
So that's how they knew it was me… They just looked up who's chair it was that the idiot was in when they knew he was there. Yeah, I called myself an idiot too. After all, the others had beaten it into my head that I was an idiot.
"Correct me if I'm wrong but you made several fatal flaws." The vines disappeared from Larxene's small wrists in a miniature explosion of soft pink petals.
"I don't think I made any mistakes. I was just about to kill him and you stopped me. You made the mistake!" the blonde woman hissed. Her nose wrinkled from the scowl she had made to her superior. So this was her partner from the little chit-chat on the ground floor.
Marluxia held up a gloved hand to silence her, a move that made her scoff out of annoyance. "You made far too much noise. I could hear every word you've said from just standing outside of the door. You were to kill him but instead of doing that right off the bat you just had to talk with the boy and then do so. Also, you didn't even make sure the door was closed all of the way. It popped back open not even a full two seconds after you entered his room. You just made mistake after mistake."
"Yes but I-" Larxene growled very un-lady like when Marluxia had cut her off as she tried to explain herself.
"Let me finish," he paused to see if she actually would allow him to do so and then proceeded when he saw that her weapons had vanished from sight before she crossed her arms over her stomach. "You did however uncover that number IX is in fact less spineless as we were lead to believe.
Larxene huffed while rolling her eyes. "He simply acted like a trapped animal, fighting back at the very last second only to meet his fate. Or he would have at least if you hadn't stopped me!"
The Graceful Assassin mused over her words and produced a soft chuckle of his own. "Perhaps so but did you think stabbing him where his heart would be would actually kill him? I would have gone for the throat," a scythe appeared just a hair away from where he had mentioned. So much for trying to slip away why they were busy correcting one another.
"But look," XI purred as he pulled the blade closer towards my neck, forcing me to back away a step at a time slowly to avoid the sharp item that had taken many lives. "Look at his eyes. He's not afraid to die and you know what that means."
Larxene shrugged her shoulder, or at least I assumed that's what she had done since I was busy avoiding certain death.
Sighing from his take on what had to be Larxene's own idiotic lack of thinking the assassin only stopped drawing the blade closer when I had ran my back into something hard but by the amount of airspace that my legs still had I assumed that he had forced me to back into himself. Clearly I was not getting away from these two…
"It means he accepts the fact he can not get away or he knows something we don't." The blonde devil shot a look that read as 'You know it's the first answer' that made me want to cringe but there were other things to worry about at the moment.
"Larxene, dear, you do realize he could have killed you effortlessly?" The woman looked offended by the sudden comment. "You were fully charged with electricity and lost your temper. You know what would happen should you have gotten wet when in that state, correct?"
Her cool green eyes softened dramatically at the sudden dawning. "I could have died. You-you planned it water boy! You planed this all along!" she accused and was readying herself to call upon her weapons yet again.
"I didn't plan anything!" I couldn't help but growl. I was tired of hearing these two talk about me as if I were some sort of animal and not even there to hear them do it. "If anything you two need to be more careful in what you do. All I wanted to do was talk to you guys after the meeting to see if either of you-" What was I doing? It's not like they cared anyway.
The two intruders to my room looked at one another then back towards me. "Go on," the more graceful of the two encouraged as he started to relax his hold on his scythe ever so slightly. He could have easily regained control of it and dispose of me if I decided to do something stupid.
"I wanted to see if either of you really can't feel anything like," god was I going to blow my cover so soon. "Like me. I don't have any memories of what I did before becoming a Nobody and I wanted to see if either of you were the same or not."
"Tsk, he's pulling our leg. Everyone knows that you believe we still have hearts!"
"Just like everyone knows you have a thing for Axel?" I replied back. Her eyes seemed to have a deadly spark behind them if it were possible. Like a sign to show that was indeed her element and she could strike you down by just glancing in ones general direction.
"Stop bickering. It's evident that nothing is going to get done this way. Larxene," she straightened up and moved out of my face. "Leave us; I need to have a word with our fellow member." Her mouth fell a gape. "Just do it."
Narrowing her green orbs she turned around on heel and left through the door, slamming it shut. Seemed like she had only chosen that way out for the dramatic affect to show us how pissed she was.
Great… That only left me with one of the top killing members out of all of Organization XIII. He wasn't given a title with the word 'assassin' in it for nothing.
"So," his scythe burst into a spout of fluttering rose petals. "You're nothing more then an actor, hm?" Lying now wouldn't be a good idea so I nodded to his proposed question. "I see… And you have no memories of the past outside of being part of the Organization?" I nodded once more. Even if I tried like I had so many nights before, I could not come up with a single memory.
Assuming it was safe to do so and the fact I had no desire to try to run away again since it failed the last several times I tried to, I took a few steps away from the eleventh in rank and turned to face him. He was dressed in the usual garb. The only real difference was that he wasn't holding a rose but there were still pieces of rose falling out of the air. Just how many roses was his scythe made out of anyway?
There was an uncomfortable silence, the same silence that usually filled my room when it was just me inside it but I usually would turn on my boom box to rid my tiny sanctuary free of the horrid nothingness… And right now… I would have even settled for something by Cascada if it would break the awkward silence.
"IX," the plant lover paused. "Demyx," he corrected with a faint smile. Who would have thought that hearing my own name could give me more chills then knowing I was being sent on a risky mission by Xemnas? "I have an offer for you and you can refuse it if you'd like."
Somehow, I had the feeling that if I did refuse whatever he was offering that I was going to end up in a ditch somewhere far away from here. "Yeah?" I mustered up, not to keen on what it might be.
"I want you to join Larxene and I in our pet project. If you do then I'll gladly teach and show you everything you need to know and perhaps even improve your powers over water in the process."
Tempting… It'd be more tempting if the wretch of a psycho woman, Larxene, wasn't part of that offer but there had to be a catch. "But?" I murmured wanting to know what it was.
"No buts. I'll simply let you go around and we'll act like this never happened. After all, you are a good actor for someone who claims to have a heart but really knows otherwise."
I frowned not sure what to think. Something smelled fishy about this whole deal and I wasn't to sure that this flowery assassin would keep his word or not.
Turning towards the door, he placed a gloved hand on the knob and opened it a crack. "I'll let you think about it. Just come find me when you have a definite answer. Goodnight, Demyx." With that said he was out the door and I was standing by myself with the weirdest proposal ever.
Did I really want to know what was going on between Lar and Mar? To be honest, I kind of was curious or at least half interested in what was going on but… Acting like nothing had happened was even more tempting then knowing something that could be a horrid secret.
No! This time I'm not taking the easy way out. I had been given all the time in the world to make a decision according to Marluxia's words but waiting would perhaps cause me to loose my nerve that I had finally found.
"XI, wait!" I called out loudly as I bolted for the exit and hulted just outside of my own room. A portal leading elsewhere was swirling before the pink haired male but he had stopped to stand in place after hearing my call for him.
"I-I," my stuttering sounded breathless, as if the mad dash to a halt his leave took a lot of energy out of me. "I want in."
A small grin crept onto the edges of the darker skinned male's lips. "Excellent. I must admit, you returned an answer sooner then I had expected. Meet me early tomorrow morning in the commons room. For now though… get some rest. You'll need it." After the final word had been spoken, Marluxia exited into the portal that dissolved into the ground and thus left me standing alone in the blank white hallway.
I did it! I done something spontaneous and slightly against my better judgment but then again, I had the feeling death waited behind the other option. Maybe not the quickest death but it just didn't seem right that they'd let me go anyway after making a big deal of wanting to kill me for overhearing part of a conversation.
Returning to my room I looked around its contents. Everything looked the same, there were no signs of struggle but then again my room looked like a major wreck twenty-four-seven anyway. The only evidence remaining that all of this had really happened were the scattered pastel pink petals laying all over my bedroom floor. It looked like something a lover would do to try to make things romantic but looked out of place on my already messy floor.
Wonderful… Now I have to find a vacuum to get rid of all the freaking petals and something was telling me that I'd have to get used to it since I was probably going to see a lot more of them from now on…
(Wow, lots of talking in this one but I woke up at seven in the morning with little sleep and decided to write this up. Hopefully it make sense to you but feel free to ask me any questions you might want answered. Other then that, I'm tired from work and covered in bruises so... Please comment on this chapter and tell me what you thought of it, be honest and now I think I might head to bed if I don't get talked into a role-play first. Ja ne...)