ChibiFrubaGirl: I also thought chapter 1 seemed a bit rushed :/ But, Axel is one of the one's I have a harder time characterizing. I will keep your advice in mind in the future : ) You got the quote! Yay! hands sugar cookies

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Disclaimer: I only own the plot. And Marluxia's "Venus Nobody"…well, kinda anyway… :/

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Ch. 2 "Man-eating Plants"

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Marluxia stood at the entrance to floor 1 in Castle Oblivion as a boy, a duck, and a dog-like creature entered.

"I finally get to meet the Keyblade Master, eh?" XI crossed his arms.

"It's Sora, Donald, and Goofy to you!" Sora summoned his keyblade. Marluxia ran through Sora, rose petals falling after him. Stopping on the other side of Sora, Marluxia withdrew his scythe from thin air.

"What was that for?!" Sora yelled, turning around.

The Graceful Assassin held up a card with blue edges. "I collected your memories." Marluxia tossed the card towards Sora and walked off.

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"Zexion, Zexion!" Vexen ran down the stairs to where Zexion was standing.

"What's all the fuss about, Vexen?"

"Where's Marluxia?" Vexen grabbed Zexion by his shoulders, but the Cloaked Schemer gently removed his grip and said,

"At the usual place."

Vexen put his thumb up to his lip and pulled slightly at the leather glove that covered his hand,

"His sanctuary…"

Zexion sighed, "If it's urgent, why don't you just go and see him?"

Vexen shook his head and balled his hands into fists by his sides,

"Stop joking around! I will await his return. I must. This is what happens when I need him and he tends to his plants. Now of all times…"

Vexen stalked off to his room. Zexion then shook his head slightly and proceeded up the stairs thinking, "I wonder why he needs Mar-Mar."

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"Mommy…" his plant cried to Marluxia. Marluxia sighed and fed his man-eating plant, which he called "harmless" even though it almost bit off Vexen's left arm. It was called a Venus Nobody and it did look rather harmless. It took the appearance of a Creeper Plant heartless except with a few minor differences. It's four petals were a mahogany and bared the Nobody symbol in the middles of each petal. And it had a plain green body, much like the Creeper Plant's.

Marluxia sat in a chair in between some of his rosebushes and his Venus Nobody. "You met Sora?" A shady figure asked him while standing behind him. Marluxia turned around and nodded a yes while studying the man. He had silver hair and aqua-blue.

"Vexen sent you, didn't he Riku?" Marluxia stood up and crossed his arms. Riku leaned against a nearby wall,

"Why would you think that? Vexen doesn't have control over me. I came out of my own free will."

"The reason I thought that was because…" Marluxia trailed off his sentence as he walked towards Riku and pinned him against the wall. He whispered into Riku's ear,

"He likes to take away the things I love." Riku blushed as the Assassin's lips moved closer to his own.

Their lips were only inches apart.

An inch.

2 centimeters. Riku's face was several shades of red, Marluxia had now accomplished something he'd always wanted to do. He had always liked the silver haired kid.

1 centimeter. This was it.

"Marluxia!" Axel burst into the room. Marluxia turned, a curse escaping under his breath.

"What do you want?!" he hissed to the red haired nobody.

"It's Vexen. He said he wanted a compromise. You keep your Venus Nobody from trying to eat and he won't bother you and will obey your. And Sora has moved on to the 7th floor."

"Tell Larxene to head there then. And to Vexen's compromise; I'll discuss it with him myself." Marluxia looked back at Riku with a look that said "I'm sorry." He then quickly walked away, stopping by Axel,

"Still continue to spy on Vexen. I suspect he is up to no good. He's a threat to the Castle." Axel nodded as XI walked off.

"So that's why he had me watching Vexen. To see what he was up to." VIII said aloud to himself and scratched the back of his head in thought. He then sighed and disappeared through a portal.

Riku looked somewhat disappointed as he walked towards Marluxia's prized Venus Nobody. The Graceful Assassin only had one because Xemnas had taken all the others to use as new pawns to get more hearts.

Riku gently stroked the petals of the Nobody. The Venus Nobody cooed a soft "Daddy." Riku gave a little smile as a small tinge of pink colored his cheeks.

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Vexen slammed the door to his room open. "M-Marluxia!" he stuttered upon seeing the pink haired nobody sitting on his bed.

"I-I was looking for you, but Zexion said you were in your Sanctuary. So I decided to…wait for you…" Vexen said as he straightened his cloak.

"Axel told me about your comprise. I guess I could agree to that." Marluxia stood up.

Vexen beamed,

"Thank-you, sir. I will obey your every whim."

"Then await for Sora and his friends on floor 11." Marluxia walked out of the room and headed to his own.

TBC

So how did like it?

I highly doubt Vexen would really obey EVERYTHING that Marluxia makes him do. But you never know.

Personally, I quite like how I make Riku and Marluxia act xD

Axel's a meanie butt-face for interrupting Marly and Riku's kiss…

I edited it quite a bit from how it was originally written :/ Ah well.

Oh, I won't be able to update till the 24th of this month cuz I'm really busy the rest of this week and next week I'm going on vacation.