Chapter 3: Lightning, Water, and Fire

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After the meeting, which had been a short briefing on that status of the Organization and to introduce Larxene to everyone else. She had whished the superior hadn't forced introduction on her, she did better with people when she did it herself.

Oh well, she probably wouldn't get along with most of them anyway. She waved bye to Marluxia in the hallway after the meeting and walked back up to her room. Marluxia had offered to show her a tour of the castle, but Larxene hadn't felt like it. It was always dark in this world so it was hard to tell when it was night or not. She wasn't really tired but she said she was going to bed.

She was walking up the stairs when that damned familiar voice caught up with her. " Hey, Larxene."

She wheeled around, a nasty glare on her face. " What do you want Axel? Why can't you just leave me alone?" She was sincerely getting tired of him butting in. In fact she didn't stick around to listen to what he wanted. Fuck him; she didn't care what he wanted.

She pounded up the stairs, glaring back angrily, expecting Axel to follow her. She wasn't paying attention to where she was going. She hadn't thought anyone else would be heading up the stairs until she crashed into Demyx. They both proceeded to stumble and fall down.

"ow watch where you're- oh Larxene sorry" he said and smiled. " Didn't mean to snap at you, just some of the guys make it a point to push me around, probably just cause I'm the youngest." He stood up and then helped her to her feet. She had thought the man she'd seen earlier, Zexion might be the youngest, but Demyx seemed fairly young too. She'd compare them some other time.

"No need to apologize, my fault" she said. She almost continued on to say that Axel was bugging her but she knew that would more than likely just cause problems. She glanced back down the stairs to see if Axel was coming up them but there was no indication he was.

Demyx saw her looking back nervously and he figured the others had been harassing her to. That was probably the reason she was in such a hurry to get back to her room like he was. He had to ask though, because it would be stupid to assume things and then be wrong. " Are the others harassing you already Larxene? They do that to everyone you know, some of them are real jerks, kinda like Axel."

"Someone say my name?" Larxene looked up to find Axel staring down at her from up the stairs. How though? He'd been behind he a few moments ago. He smirked; obviously pleased he'd managed to ruffle her feathers.

The hard glare Demyx gave Axel was masking how startled he was as well. "Leave us alone Axel," he said shakily. Demyx didn't seem the type to be standing up for himself, much less anyone else.

Larxene knew he wasn't here to pester Demyx though. She turned around and started down the stairs when she collided into Axel. How did he keep doing that? It was beginning to get on her nerves. She turned around to storm back up the stairs when he grabbed her arm. She let out a yelp, half startled, half pained. He just had to grab that arm. The scabs of the self inflicted wound on her arm from earlier screamed at her as Axel's hand closed around them and he yanked her back.

"Where are you going Larxene? Not sleepy already are you. Come on the nights still young, in fact round here it always is, got it memorized? Why aren't you gonna hang around with us for a while?" She knew what he wanted, and it annoyed her, though she couldn't blame him. From what she could tell she was the only female in the organization, not to mention it had probably been a while since this creep had a girlfriend. He could brush up on his manners a bit.

"I'm going far away from you if you don't mind" she snarled. It wasn't exactly comfortable having him puling so tightly on her. Then she smirked, deciding to show him her handy little friend. She had stashed small kunai in the sleeve of her coat to use if she ever needed, now she believed counted as needed. She managed to slide one out of her sleeve and into her hand without him noticing. As he tried to pull her along she stabbed him on the arm.

He let out a pained scream, and Larxene didn't stick around to find out what he would do when he recovered from the shock. She ran up the stairs as fast as she could, running by Demyx who had continued up the stairs after the brief scare with Axel. " hey Lar- " he said but she was gone before he could say anything. He quickly found out why. Half a moment latter a very angry Axel dashed up the stairs after her. Demyx was kinda scared about what would happen if she got caught. He hoped she wouldn't, Axel might rip her apart. He looked at the ground and noticed a trail of blood. Who had left it? He was worried for her, prayed it wasn't her. She had just gotten here…

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"LEAVE ME ALONE" She screamed and kicked him in the face. This was the third time he had caught her. He seemed to have forgotten how to do whatever it was that always seemed to put him a few steps ahead of her. He was in a blind furry, in savage pursuit of her. What a creep, he needed more attention…as in from a mental ward, not her. She managed to struggle away and took off running again, though she was beginning to fatigue. She had no idea where she was going, she just wanted to get away from him. He ran after her, this time tackling her into the wall, pinning her there.

"let GO" she screamed furiously. His hands clenched around her shoulders. He was hot, not as in attractive, but as in heat. His fury seemed to be heating up the very air around them. It was getting harder to breath in through the thick air.

"Your lucky I don't kill you for that" he meant stabbing him in the arm more than likely. If not it meant kicking him in the crotch after the second time he had caught up to her. At first his pursuit had been merely his inability to control his lust because she was the first girl he had seen in a long time. Now however he was pissed off because she had managed to stab him on the arm and kick him in a very sensitive area. She though for a second he might try to kill her from the look in his eyes.

Just then she herd " Dance water dance." Though she couldn't see the source she recognized Demyx's voice. Axel let go for a second and looked behind him just in time to have a blast of water soak him. Larxene then herd Demyx run away screaming. The thought to use her elemental powers hadn't occurred to her. While Axel stood, addled from the blast she placed her hands on his chest. She grinned at him then dug her nails in. She gave him a quick blast of electricity then sprinted away. After Demyx had drenched him the thunder shock had to be much more effective.

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Larxene had run into the first room she had come too, which had thankfully been Demyx's. She was exhausted after all the evading Axel. Demyx had been a bit shocked at first but then welcomed her in and locked the door to keep Axel from showing back up.

"Thanks for your help back there, who knows what would've happened if I couldn't have escaped." She didn't want to think about it. She knew Axel's type, grew up around them. Guys that seemed nice, hell some of them really were, until you set them off. She called it P.B.R, point blank rage. She actually felt kinda sorry for him, she could relate. She had a tendency to snap sometimes too. Hell doesn't everyone?

"No problem. Axel can be a real jerk sometimes, but other times he can be really cool ya know? He's an awesome guy, he just is really hot headed, and if he doesn't get his way well…" he trailed off, knowing she knew what he meant. Demyx and Axel were actually okay friends, though Axel teased him a lot. "just don't let one little fit totally ruin your opinion of him. I know you've got a perfectly good reason-"

"Don't worry about it" she said. She knew what he meant. Larxene had spent a large portion of the time she was whole in the gutter, she knew a lot of men like Axel. She sighed, trying to forget some of the memories she was supposedly lucky to have. "I know what his problem is, his got all the fury pent up and he doesn't do anything about it. Am I right?" Demyx nodded.

" It's not exactly like he can go and get mental counseling" he said and gave a weak laugh. "The Nobody Memorial Hospital closed down doncha know." Larxene laughed a little bit then nodded. Maybe Axel wasn't such a bad guy. He probably just had some issues, what else was new? Maybe she could help him, then she wouldn't have to worry about him hunting her down and trying to kill her.

There was a soft rap on the door and Demyx walked cautiously over to it. He unlocked the door and opened it. Axel pushed in before he could shut it again. He turned to Larxene, his face set in a hard glare. His eyes though, being the windows to the soul as some say, looked almost sorry however. Demyx looked panicked, but then when Axel made no other movement towards either of them than staring at Larxene he relaxed.

"I'm…" Axel started then looked down at the floor and muttered softly "sorry." Larxene laughed and he looked up at her viciously " what's so funny?"

"Don't be sorry Axel. You can't help it that your stupid and don't know how to be anything else than a stupid angst and raged filled Nobody. If you want I can help you try to get over it though. It's symbiotic really, you learn how to take out your distress on something other than me and you don't try to hunt me down and kill me. Sound fair?" She crossed her arms and locked eyes with him giving him a neutral look. He looked at her for a long time before gritting his teeth and muttering some form of acknowledgement. She smiled and walked over to him. "Good boy, that's the first step to not being a psycho path." Larxene laughed again, she could already picture it in her head.

Larxene's Ten Step Program to Not Being Psycho, she'd sell millions.

((authors note: yay, nother chapter done. Sadly this will be the last for a few weeks, going on vacation. When I come back I'll write an extra long chapter for you though.))