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Impromptu Party: Flying High
None of them had ever put so much effort into anything! Not fighting the Heartless, nor even fighting Sora and his friends! All of them were portalling backwards and forwards like headless chickens. Axel and Roxas were back with the new food within half an hour, having had to wait a while at the restaurant where they had also had a quick snack! Xigbar, after decorating the trees with lights and lanterns, had already done an amazing job of setting up buffet tables, tastefully surrounded by large feathery plants, in the greenhouse. He was in the middle of hooking up gas canisters to the table top burners for the hot food table when Ax and Rox portalled in, nearly knocking over Luxord and Xaldin who were arriving with more huge jugs of ready mixed cocktails, in a variety of psychedelic colours, to join the ones they had already put out on the table which had been designated the bar. The enormous chocolate fountain was bubbling away on the centre table, with baskets of marshmallows, fruit and little amaretti biscuits all around.
"Place looks amazing, guys!" said Axel, scanning the building. "Marluxia must be turning in his grave!"
"It also sounds amazing – Dem's done wonders with that crappy sound system, and Xig pulled his finger out of where it usually resides, and debugged the whole area. Most of them were in the ceiling anyway!" chuckled Luxord, receiving a dirty look but also a grin, from Xig, as the first guitar strains reached them from the garden speakers.
"That's fantastic Dem," shouted Roxas over the music, to Demyx, who was playing air guitar, over on the decking.
"Right, I'm off to get ready then. I've set up four hours of playlists to be going on with," he said opening a portal.
"Luxord, how are all these guys getting here?" asked Axel, before Lux could portal out for more refreshments.
"That's the really clever part! Once again we have Xig to thank for it!" Xig was now grinning broadly.
"It was simple physics really, we've created a solid portal, a door to you, in a huge derelict prefab, where the party is supposedly being held! They open the door and walk through out of that door there," he pointed to the new door at the back of the biosphere which they hadn't noticed before, because of all the lights and the trees. "One of us will have to accompany each group just to be on the safe side, we're not 100% sure how well humans portal, or if the solidity will make a difference. We've tried it, and we're fine!"
"Clever Xig!" breathed Roxas, genuinely impressed with this feat of engineering.
"OK then, looks like we're about ready. I'm off to sort myself out, and pray that Demyx hasn't emptied the hot water tank. Yeah I know I can heat the water myself in a second, but I'd rather save my energy for tonight!" and with that, Axel portalled out, and after a swift final glance around their handiwork, the others followed suit.
They had agreed not to portal around in front of the humans, so when Demyx was finally ready, he only portalled as far as the biosphere door. He was more than a little nervous, not that this whole shindig would be found out, but simply because he always got cold feet at big gatherings. He needed to go pee, and suddenly realised a glaring error in their calculations for the night, he portalled straight into Axel's room, something which by common consent they did not usually do even if the room was not on lock-out.
"Ax we need toilets!" yelled Demyx as he himself ran into Ax's bathroom to use his.
"What do you mean 'we need toilets'. You're using one right now, I'd recognise that ladylike tinkle anywhere!"
"We need toilets in the garden, dickbrain! We forgot how often humans need to pee when they drink alcohol! They can't enter the castle proper and even if they could, they'd have to portal to the nearest loo, which they can't do without one of those things that Xig set up!"
"Geez Dem, you're right, for once! OK, I saw some Portapotties by that Christmas market, we'll just have to go and relieve it of them," he chuckled at his own joke.
"Er, what if they're in use?"
"Then we either line up to use them ourselves or we dispose of the line, go in and portal them out! We'll have to put them behind the trees at the back of the greenhouse, it's the only place no-one will see us portalling them in, and it's kind of an appropriate place for the loos anyway! Go get Rox to tell the others what we're doing and then have him meet us in Christmas Town."
Axel was portalling out as Demyx came back in from the bathroom, so he immediately went to Roxas's room.
Fifteen minutes later, the three of them exited the newly installed prefab loos, in the garden, grinning broadly. They had decided not to dispose of the queues as they were quite short, but were imagining the looks on the faces of the people behind them when they saw their source of relief just disappear!
It appeared that the party had pretty much started without them. Lux had escorted several groups in already, Rox thought he recognized one of the girls from a night out he'd had with Luxord some weeks back, and remembering how enthusiastic she had been, he made a beeline for her.
Axel threw his arm around Demyx proprietarily, "I hope you're not making plans like young Rox there," he whispered in Dem's ear, his hot breath making Dem go slightly week at the knees. "I have my own plans for you, and they don't involve outsiders."
"But we can still dance, can't we?"
"Sure. I love watching you move, it's like an appetizer before a meal – but if I see anyone else touching your butt, or with their mouth where it shouldn't be – they're toast!"
Dem who was an outrageous flirt with both sexes once he got over his cold feet, felt mildly concerned for the guests, but not enough to stop him having a good time.
"Well, we can solve that problem, if you dance with me – now!" said Dem.
"You know I'm not a dancer, I'm a watcher."
"But I've seen you dance Ax, and you're really good, really hot, and then you go all sparkly!"
"Which is why, Dem, tonight of all nights, I am not going to dance! Remember last time I did it in front of humans? No Dem. You go dance, and I'll get us two of those interesting concoctions of Lux's."
As Demyx mooched over to the dance floor, all turquoise and shimmery, in a shot silk suit, and Xaldin came in to the garden with the last group of humans, Axel went into the greenhouse. He was looking at the bar trying to decide which of the multi-coloured cocktails to pour, when arms slid round his waist from behind and a body pressed in very close. He was about to turn round and kiss his boyfriend when a very female voice whispered into his ear.
"Buy me a drink, handsome?"
He whipped round, shocked. An extremely attractive 20-something brunette who was almost wearing a red dress, stood in front of him, looking very spaced out. Ax decided she must have taken something before the party, and gingerly unfastened her hands from around him.
"Sure, if you help me pick out a good one for my boyfriend!" Ax said, emphasising the last word and hoping she'd take the hint. The female squealed sounding not unlike Demyx.
"Oooh, more fun than I thought, is he as gorgeous as you?"
This was not going well, or was it? Briefly Axel, felt a wave of contentment with the whole idea, it passed, but in moments it was back and he felt like he'd already had a couple of drinks. Not enjoying the sudden dizziness, he liked to control his descent into drunken debauchery, he decided to get some fresh air.
"Excuse me a moment," he said to the anonymous brunette, "I promised to set up the next playlist and it's nearly the last song on this one."
"Well make sure you come back straight away, and bring your boyfriend with you!" she winked at him, suggestively; all he could manage was a weak smile.
He nearly portalled out of the greenhouse, he was so anxious to get some away, but just in time remembered to walk – well - run!
He fetched up in front of Roxas and a very pretty girl, who looked as spaced as the one in the greenhouse. She was holding a plate of Rox's favourite pasta.
"This party is just the best," she commented, slurring her words slightly, trying to make a forkful of pasta reach her mouth, either oblivious to, or unconcerned by the fact that Roxas was trying to unbutton her blouse at the same time. Axel looked at Rox and was definitely concerned to see his eyes looked the same as the two women. Something wasn't right, and he suspected Luxord had something to do with it. The man in question was stood chatting by the decking with his current paramour. Axel marched straight over, and pulled Lux to one side.
"Spill, Lux! What have you put in the drinks? Roxas looks like he's spent the night in an opium den!"
"Nothing! Just the stuff that was in Dem's room. I'd noticed it too! I thought you'd put something in the food, not that I'm complaining, but it's when they come out of the greenhouse from getting food, that they seem to be, how shall I put it...more amenable!"
"There's nothing in the food. You know how I feel about drugs. Drink, not bothered, drugs, just wrong. Did you know my brother died from an overdose? Way before the Heartless ever came to my hometown, I was about 12, and I found him, and I never want to see that again!"
"Ax, I swear it wasn't me, or the X's, I'd stake my heart on it," he smiled at the double entendre, "only Xig has been solo at all today and he feels the same way you do...OMG...Axel, where is Roxas?" spluttered Luxord, as he suddenly realised what might be going on.
"Why? You going to tell me my buddy did something? He's been with me all day!"
"No, but...well...he needs to speak to you and I need to go and turn off the burners on the hot food table, open the greenhouse roof, and set the garden's air filters to max. Go find Roxas, pour some coffee into him and make him tell you what he's been up to the last few months!"
Luxord immediately ran off in direction of the greenhouse, leaving Axel open-mouthed, staring after him.
He did a quick check to see that Demyx was still OK, and seeing that he was happily doing the Macarena at a respectable distance from the next person, he made a beeline back to Roxas.
"Scuse us," he said, roughly pulling Roxas off the pretty blonde, and dragging him towards the toilets, so that he could portal him out.
Once he got Rox to the kitchen, he threw him onto a hard wooden kitchen stool and turned an angry and accusatory face on him.
"You're stoned! Everyone out there at the party is stoned!" Roxas rolled his eyes.
"Aargh! Drink this," Axel yelled thrusting a large mug of coffee at him, and following it up with a jug of very cold water in the face. "Now tell me what the hell is going on. Lux seems to think you know something about all this!"
A slightly dazed and distant Roxas, smiled at Axel a little sheepishly. "What's up, Ax? Don't know what you mean."
"It's got something to do with the greenhouse Rox. What do you know about the greenhouse?"
At the mention of the greenhouse, something in Roxas brain connected. "Oh shit! Goddamn shit! We put burners in there didn't we? Shit!"
"Rox you had better start making some sense or I am going to start putting burners into you! What have you done?"
"Shit! Lux is right, it is my fault, Ax. I didn't tell you this before because I know how you are about drugs, but this isn't drugs, well, not the kind you're thinking anyway. Xaldin found these guys, medicine men types, who burn this plant to help them get visions of the past, and he brought some back. I've been using it to try and remember who I was before, but we've been growing the plants in the greenhouse, and it's when they're heated, like tonight, that they produce this kind of trance."
"You stupid, dickbrained arsehole of the first magnitude. I should fry you for this. I realise everyone out there is having a great time, which is good, but it wasn't supposed to be that way! What if the humans can't tolerate it? What happens when it's mixed with alcohol? How long until the effects wear off?"
"Pretty soon after you stop inhaling the stuff, hence you didn't need to slosh me with icewater or make me drink that foul stuff you call coffee, you arsehole! I feel back to normal now, and probably so do the rest of our guests, after all we got the stuff off humans, which means we should probably get back. I, for one, feel way too sober now to be at a party!"
"Fine, we'll go back," said Axel, aware that he had left Demyx without any explanation of why he hadn't got him so much as a drink yet, "but Rox you haven't heard the last of this, you moron! Just tell me, did everyone but me know about this?"
"No, only Lux and Dem and Xaldin. The others haven't a clue."
"And of course, since between the four of you there isn't one properly functioning brain, you couldn't figure out what would happen tonight!"
"No need to be rude Ax," said Rox as they portalled to the area behind the portaloos, "we just didn't think! Hell, we didn't even think about loos until after the party started!" Roxas pointed out quite reasonably. Axel however wasn't listening as he was stomping off in the direction of his boyfriend who had been left alone for far too long already!
Hope you're enjoying the party! It's just got started!