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The Exception to the Rule

Chapter Five: The Underworld

I stood in my room, panting slightly. I had run from Xemnas's office to my room. I can only pretend to be indifferent for so long. Sure I expected Axel to be gone for a little while, but to abandon the organization completely?

"Helena?"

"Yes Demyx?"

"Xemnas told me that I had to check out the Underworld. But I know this sort of thing is something you're used to so he told me to take you with me."

"Yea ok, let's leave next week?"

"Yea, next week." Demyx agreed. But he didn't leave as I expected but just stared at me for a moment.

"Is something else that you want Demyx?" I ask.

"Do you miss them? I mean Roxas and Axel." He asks quickly.

"No! I mean why would I? I mean what is there to miss? I mean we have no emotions, so there's no point in wasting time thinking about the past. Why?"

"You just seem sad, or I don't know you just seem off." He replies. I looked at Demyx, I mean really looked at him and realized that he wasn't as much as an idiot as I thought.

"But anyway, I'll see you later." He continues and leaves with a big wave.

"Not sad Demyx, but lonely." I murmur to the closed door.

"So what are we doing?" I asked.

"No clue, maybe…um…"

I laugh; Demyx is so cute when he's confused. He smiles and scratches the back of his head as if he were embarrassed. We continue walking down the dank dark halls of the Underworld when a group of heartless started to attack us. I grabbed Demyx's arm before he started to fight them.

"Come on! Come on! Lets leave them to the Keyblade Master; you know he's bound to show up eventually." I pull my hood up and run down the hall with Demyx and the heartless hot on our trail. At first I wondered who was laughing when I realized it was me.

Sora's P.O.V

Donald, Goofy, and I were walking down the halls of the Underworld planning to give Hades a visit when we heard the sound of running feet and laughter.

"What's that?" I wondered aloud.

When suddenly two figures cloaked in black ran around the corner.

"The Organization!" Donald yelled.

"RUN FOR IT!" One of the cloaked figures shouted as they ran past us. Before I could stop them a large group of heartless rounded the corner and attacked.

Helena's P.O.V

We rounded another corner and leaned against the wall panting. It wasn't long before I heard the sound of Sora and his friends fighting the heartless.

"We could have fought them off you know." Demyx told me.

"Yea and give ourselves away!" I retorted.

"It doesn't really matter now; I mean they have already seen us. Maybe we should, you know, make contact with him."

"You can, I'm here only to observe." Demyx sighed at me and gave me the 'I-don't-want-to-do-it-alone' look.

"Fine! I suppose I could help you out, but only this once Demyx!" I told him with a sigh of my own. He smiles at me

"I wonder what's taking them so long." I mused aloud.

"Who knows?" Demyx replied.

"You would think he would have gotten through the Cavern by know, man he must be easily distracted, Roxas wasn't like that was he?" I asked.

"No, he seemed to always seemed to be in a sort of focus that you could only shake him out of every once and awhile. He took himself to seriously I think." Demyx told me. I nodded. I mean it was true; Roxas was really serious, all the time.

"Helena! Here they come." I nod and step behind him as he takes off his hood.

"It's the thief!" Sora yelled as soon as he saw the Olympus Stone in Demyx's hand.

"Hey! That's just rude!" Demyx replied.

"Ah man, Helena help me out here!" Demyx looked over at me. I stepped forward but kept my hood up.

"Look what the card says!" I did. It said to bring Roxas back or 'If the subject fails to respond... use aggression to liberate his true disposition.'

"'To liberate his true disposition.'?" I ask with amusement. Demyx scowls at me.

"Do you two mind telling me what your doing here." Sora yells at us.

"Roxas there's no need to yell." Demyx says with annoyance.

"Roxas?"

"Roxas, come on just come back." I added.

"You're insane, I'm Sora!"

"Man they sent the wrong guy for this!" Demyx said with a sigh.

"I can't interfere Demyx, you know that." I told him a whisper.

"Fine, you leave me no choice! Dance Water Dance!" Demyx called his Sitar and started to play. It was an interesting fight to watch but Sora won eventually when Demyx accidentally dropped the Olympus Stone. I came up behind Demyx and summoned a portal.

"Roxas, come back to us!" Demyx said one last time before we both disappeared through the portal.

"I'm going to go report." Demyx told me as we entered the castle.

"Ok, I'll see you later."

"Wait, don't you have to report also?" I waved the comment off.

"Nothing of importance happened; I mean the only strange thing that happened was the fact that most of your orders were on a note card." I raised an eyebrow at him.

"Good point, later Helena. Wait.. HEY!" He yelled after me.

I waved and walked towards my room. I opened the door and looked around.

"There's no use and hiding, I know you're here."

"Ah, so you've caught me and what is little ol' Helena going to do about it?"

"Don't patronize me, Axel." I turn around and see him grinning at me. I just look at him.

"What you act like you're not happy to see me!" Axel told me mockingly. I thought about reminding him that nobodies didn't have emotions, but I didn't even know if I was one so I remained silent.

"What are you doing here? You've left, you've betrayed us." I said coldly. He looked shocked.

"I may have betrayed them, but I would never betray you." I shake my head.

"Like I'm going to believe that." I mutter.

"Come on, I had to leave!"

"What's next are you going to tell it was all for the best?"

"It was!" This comment intrigued me.

"How so?"

"I couldn't stay because the organization has nothing left to offer me; besides I need to do things my own way, I'm through with following orders." I shrugged.

"That's why you deal." I reply. He shook his head at me.

"For only so long, besides Xemnas is losing it. I mean look at our numbers!" He was right, Xemnas was losing it, and he didn't seem to really understand emotions.

"Why won't you leave?" Axel asked me. I shrugged, and then I thought about it.

"No good reason, except maybe the fact that I know more than the ordinary member, besides I don't think Xemnas would let me leave." I replied.

"Ah, well you can help me with information." I looked at him then nodded.

"Yea I could, for now." I turned my back on him and went into my bathroom. When I returned he was gone as I expected he would be.